I saw a fair bit of Diz in the last few years. He had declined a lot but his humour still came out occasionally. Can I please put in a plea if anyone has recorded material especially video of Diz from the folk club days, I'd love to get hold of a copy and share it with Hylda Sims (his oldest friend I think) and Katie Watkins his goddaughter. Katie has looked after him wonderfully in recent years and all though there was no money, she made sure that he was in a good home and visited him daily. We have many memories of him but none of us have much recorded stuff. I've got stuff of Diz with Grappelli but nothing of Diz as the great entertainer that he was.
Cheers
Simon Prager
020 8677 0526
simon.prager@googlemail.com