Al ~ It was a career thing. I remember his once showing me an almost empty forthcoming gigs diary, and saying words to the effect that "I did The Transports, everyone loved and respected it {just as you say above}, ~~and from that moment my bookings practically ceased and my career went phhhttt!" Jenny told Valerie and me that, a few days before he died, he spent the entire evening playing right back thru all his records, listening carefully and as best he could objectively, and said at the end, "Well, I AM good!. What the hell has gone wrong?!" She also told us of the precise sequence of events on the evening he went out, sat on a hilltop where he could look down on their house in Keighley, and took an OD, to be found there dead the next morning.

AFAK that was the reason ~ & I think, having been to that extent in his and her confidence, that I probably know as well as anybody.

~Michael~