Funnily enough I mentioned Derrol Adams earlier, and he also seems to have escaped to opprobrium that Alex gets on the subject of drinking too much.
I have personally driven Derrol round the dives and clubs of Soho after the pubs shut, in order to find him a bottle of whisky, for which he paid well over the correct price, from a strip club.
This was so he could go to sleep, and have something to wake up to. Now that's serious alcoholism, and I had never met up with it that bad before.
I also remember that whoever handled that tour for him [Roy Guest possibly?], told club organisers not to give him the full amount of his fee, just enough to keep him going, and send the rest to the tour organiser. I believe this was as much to stop him giving the money away to someone down on their luck, as to stop him drinking too much. He had a reputation as an extremely generous man.
Anyway he and Alex were bosom buddies, and I'd swap 100 of today's bland and characterless musical whizz kids, to have either of them back.
Giok