Sorry to hear about the world's loss.
I was there Paul R at Sale that night when you booked Diz.
He arrived without a guitar saying "it had been liberated by the revolutionary masses and that were probably digging a trench with the bloody thing as we speak". I remember Al Lawrence lending him his Yamaha guitar which prompted various comments similar to those already mentioned.
Paul R whatever happened to Al? I knew he moved to the IOM shortly after.