"When everybody's on their flights home and we have a hopefully very successful victory parade for winners of both Olympic and Paralympic medals then we'll set about getting London back to normal," he told the BBC.
Police tactics were successful, sealing the parade from its attackers and ensuring that, while the show of pride hardly had the audience of ordinary Serbians that its organisers wanted, its participants were protected.
After all, Hamilton already fronts South Coast pastoral rockers British Sea Power, bassist Marc Beatty is in the Tenderfoot, and fellow Brightonites Tom and Alex White, on guitar and drums respectively, are the young brothers who formed the highly successful Electric Soft Parade.
His career as a hit-maker had begun five years earlier, with the single I Wanna Be Your Lover, and he followed up Purple Rain with further hugely successful releases including Parade, Sign o' the Times, Lovesexy and Diamonds and Pearls.
The successful recent adaptation of Parade's End has brought him a good few more readers – and The Good Soldier is now recognised as an early classic of modernism, something even more special than "the finest French novel in the English language", as Ford jokingly described it in his 1927 introduction.
Dockers' Days bring together past successful Millwall teams who parade on the pitch at half-time.
Whereas Duke Nukem 3D was a fairly successful parody of the then-waning Stallone/Schwarzenegger action hero, Forever simply does its utmost to force you into a ceaseless parade of blunt profanity and dull toilet humour.
If you make the mistake of watching the Grammys in a cynical or exhausted mood, the program becomes an absurd parade: already colossally successful people handing each other trophies that merely reiterate success that was likely bought and paid for in advance, anyway.
In 1932, an MGM film version of his novel "The Wet Parade" was modestly successful.
