Bonnie and Harvey, many thanks to you both. I want to use 'Adam and the Beasts' in a presentation that I am working on and could find nothing on Clayre as a songwriter or singer. What a sad story. I had found this snippet in a paper relating, inter alia, to the incidence of depression among high achievers: He wrote novels and produced award-winning television programs. Yet, the day a book he had worked on for years was to be published the young Alasdair Clayre ended his life by jumping into the path of a train at an underground station in north London. According to close friends, he had been mortally fearful of what the reviewers may say about the book.

Regards, Stewie.