Conversely, the Krays were seen in other quarters as symbols of moral decay and evil, with the famous photographs of the brothers taken by David Bailey being viewed as "the phrenological archetypes of proletarian villainy". [40] Jenks and Lorentzen wrote the twins became symbols in the public mind of British organised crime itself as the brothers were associated with "tales of excessive and gratuitous violence and to a time when London criminality appeared not only as organised as never before, but also integrated into the Establishment and the vanguard of popular culture". [40] Jenks and Lorentzen further maintained that the Krays' close association with the East End, an area viewed as a centre of "social disorganisation and moral decay", further contributed to the negative picture of the brothers. [41]

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Can you really predict a prisoner's death?date=August 6, 2010". BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018 . Retrieved 21 June 2018. Ronnie Kray's death saddens villains and police alike". The Guardian. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015 . Retrieved 19 September 2015. The Rise of the Krays (2015), a low budget film starring Simon Cotton as Ronnie and Kevin Leslie as Reggie [92]

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Part of the appeal of the legend of the Krays is that their story ended with the "dark side" of life that they represented being vanquished. Pettey wrote: "In general, twins' lives fascinate because of their rarity in culture; their singularity forms the stuff of foundational myths, and lends itself to speculations about repetition, dualities and paradoxes. For Ron and Reggie Kray, local East End and London media lore hinted at two personalities, the gangster and the gentleman, the schizophrenic sadist and the clear-headed businessman, and the promiscuous homosexual and the monogamous married man." [110] Deaths editHistory". the Berkeley Hotel. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012 . Retrieved 4 December 2012. Reggie Kray freed". bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. 26 August 2000. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018 . Retrieved 2 June 2018.

Russell, Steven (28 April 2008). "Hard men with a soft spot for Suffolk". East Anglian Daily Times. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019 . Retrieved 6 September 2020. Johnny Rodriguez’s origin story made for perfect country music lore: arrested for goat rustling near his hometown of Sabinal, Texas, the singer was released early after serenading the sheriff for a few hours. A Texas Ranger who heard him sing introduced him to the man who would become his manager, then that man, J.T. “Happy” Shahan, had him play on a local stage that also hosted national stars including Tom T. Hall. Hall heard him and, apocryphally, invited him straight to Nashville.Edge, Simon (15 May 2014). "Reggie Kray's tragic first wife: Nightmare of Frances Shea's life with East End gangster". Daily Express. Archived from the original on 16 May 2014 . Retrieved 20 August 2014. Ronnie later stated about his childhood: "We had our mother, and we had each other, so we never needed no one else". [11] One of the Krays' cousins who attended school with them, Billy Wilshire, recalled: "It's hard to say exactly what it was, but they weren't like other children". [12] The Krays' biographer, John Pearson, argued that their mother planted the seeds of the malignant narcissism that the twins would display as adults by encouraging her sons to think of themselves as being extraordinary while spoiling their every whim. [13] Legend: Tom Hardy Emily Browning star in Kray brothers film". Herald Sun . Retrieved 5 October 2022. What on Earth is so funny?” I asked, still perplexed after several minutes of watching the shopkeeper nearly split his sides. Reggie married Frances Shea in 1965; she took her own life two years later. In 1997 Reggie married Roberta Jones, [92] whom he met while still in prison. She was helping to publicise a film she was making about Ronnie, who had died in the hospital two years earlier. [95] Controversies edit