The pair of them were accused of trying to burn down the less than salubrious accommodation they "lived" in at the Bambi Kino.
But Pete tells me: "This is something that was a concoction of Bruno Koschmider because we'd defected to the Top 10 club.
"George had been sent home because all of a sudden he'd been found to be underage, amazing, as soon as we mentioned we were going to the Top 10 club George had to go home.
"So we played at the Top 10 for one night and then Paul and I went back to the Bambi Kino to get our belongings, well, what was left of them.
"There was no light in the Bambi Kino as has been well-chronicled, and Paul and I took some condoms out, stuck them on the wall, and lit them and they spluttered and gave us enough light to get out belongings together.
"The next thing we were arrested the following morning, taken to the police station and after being grilled for many hours were told we'd tried to burn down the Bambi Kino.
"We said how can you burn down a concrete cinema with a couple of condoms?!
It wasn't out intention.
"That was the trumped up charge and we were deported within hours.
"As soon as we got back home, both my mother Mona and Allan Williams got hold of us and we appealed and that was won and we were allowed back into Germany.