This is the right kind of stuff!

Jim Carroll, this thread needs you. Please don't think me flippant, but I've read so much second-hand opinion about MacColl that he seems as real as the Big Hewer in my mind. Give us some banal recollections and let's try to remember the living, breathing chap.

Did anyone ever buy him a packet of crisps? If so, what flavour did he prefer? Come on, this is the stuff we need to know.