I have a very battered piece of vinyl that used to be Paul McNeill's 1965 debut album for Decca. Perhaps modern technology could clean it up!

Tracks are: Side 1 - 1 The Sound of Silence ( the first recording of this I ever heard ): 2 Sparrow : 3 It Ain't Me Babe : 4 April, Come she will : 5 The Town Crier : 6 One Day Old : 7 A Church is Burning Side 2 - 1 My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove : 2 By the Window : 3 The Leaves that are Green : 4 Brown Baby : 5 Erev Shel Shoshanim : 6 Child of Hiroshima : 7 The Last Thing on my Mind

A preponderance of Paul Simon tracks (McNeill shared an apartment with Simon when the latter was living in the UK), a couple of Tom Paxton songs and a McNeill original (By the Window)

I also have the single that Paul cut with Linda Peters ( later better known, after her marriage to Richard, as Linda Thompson) which has a strange version of "You Ain't Going Nowhere" coupled with another McNeill original "I'll show you how to sing".

From time to time I still sing two other songs that Paul wrote "King of Spain" and "The Garden" as well as "I'll show you how to sing"

Which he did. I roadied for him, and for Paul and Linda, ran Tuesday nights at the Troubadour in London with him for a while, and often wonder what happened to him.

The last I heard he was living rough - he was always a bit eccentric - but he was a good singer and a very solid guitarist.

Any further news, knowledge or rememberance would be welcome.