Keikalla (BENNY)

Filmed: late February 1985

Location: Winter garden, Rivoli Jardin Hotel, Helsinki, Finland

Broadcast: SVT, Sweden

Release status: Unreleased

Shown in: Sweden

Additional information

Keikalla = At The Gig

English-language interview with Benny about Chess

At the end he drew his famous cartoon character and coloured it in! 

As the known copy has a Finnish subtitles, it was repeated in Finland too.

Fan Petri has found the following information in a recently-released book about the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks. "According to the book, Benny was in Finland on 1 March 1985 to tape his appearance (I assume it was just an interview) on a programme called  Keikalla. The book doesn't provide any further information on the programme, but after some Googling and he found out that there was a TV show with that name on Finnish TV in the 1980s. The reason why Benny's visit is included in the Hanoi Rocks book is that he was asked during the interview if he knows Hanoi Rocks. Benny had no idea who they were!

Further update: The Finnish tabloid newspaper Iltalehti published a news article about Benny's visit on 1 March 1985. The article, which I found via Iltalehti's digital archive, features a picture of Benny spray painting the cartoon character seen in the screen caps. Benny was interviewed by Markku Veijalainen. The article mentioned that interview would be broadcast over the next few weeks.

 

Thanks to Patrick Smith, Marcus Bergs, huge thanks to Petri Kaasalainen and Jozsef.

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