The Kooks' Pritchard Nearly Arrested For Singing The Beatles

The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard has revealed that he was nearly arrested in Germany after trying to get onstage at a festival to sing The Beatles.

The singer explained that he was at a highly clichéd Munich beer festival when he requested that the house band should sing ‘Yellow Submarine.’ After trying to climb onstage to join in, security promptly phoned the police.

He told MTV:  "We went to this place called the Hofbrauhaus, it’s the place where all the Nazi rallies started, where Hitler started chanting or whatever.”

“It’s properly Bavarian, everyone drinking, every half hour they have this band and everyone has to down their drinks.”

“I was really drunk and I asked the band to go and play Yellow Submarine I gave them 20 Euros and they played it but I tried to get on stage to play with them.

“I was going to sing it and they went nuts, this guy grabbed me- one of the big Bavarian dudes in the full, little hat and trousers!”

“I sat back down but they phoned up the police and told them we were doing drugs in the building. Luckily we weren’t so they didn’t arrest us. Quite a funny night actually. We left kind of screaming and shouting.”