Isn't it odd when someone dies whose name you're incredibly familiar with, yet you know nothing about them whatsoever. They played what my missus said was his most famous song of all on the wireless this morning (don't ask me what it's called...) and I could honestly say that I've never heard it, or at least that nary a scintilla of it has ever lodged in my cranium. I concluded that he must be folk... :-)

However, it seems that he was a good egg who gave joy to millions and that's he's died too young. So my condolences to his nearest and dearest and to his fans.