Mick has joined the Jazzband in the sky at the age of 78. I would have thought he was older, but he did have a hard life, all that drinking and debauchery.
Jim Godbolt's book 'All This and Ten Percent' is a fairly good picture of the Mulligan band, and George Melly also evokes the period very well. I particularly liked the story of Melly's landlord giving him notice to quit because he was 'tired of Mick the Mulligan bringing his doxies here and performing strange tribal rites into the early hours.'
After Mick quit the Jazz scene in 1962, he became a Grocer, Wine Merchant and family man. He is survived by his second wife, four chjldren and three step-children.
R.I.P.

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