Wally Hope

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Wally Hope (1947 - 1974) was the name by which the Windsor Free Festival organiser, Phil Russell, was known. His friend Penny Rimbaud credits him with much of the inspiration behind Rimbaud's project, Crass. In 1974, after his arrest on charges of LSD possession, Hope spent ten weeks in a psychiatric institution. Subsequently, he died, officially by suicide, although Rimbaud believes that rather than dying by this own hand, the government, for political reasons, had him deliberately murdered.