Used to drink with him early (to late !) evenings in a Youngs pub called The Plough on Wandsworth Road around 1976/77. Got to know him socially before I knew who he was or that he was involved with music. He often seemed (in retrospect) to prefer the company of non-musicians and talk about non-musical subjects. Last year also met Nick Cudworth (his former colleague in Siren who now paints and runs a gallery in Bath) when he did a series of songs and played keyboards one Saturday in Bath's Octagon Centre to "illustrate" an exhibition of his own paintings on pop music subjects.