McGrath - is Alex's book still available (second-hand) ANYWHERE? I'd love to have it but haven't even found it in libraries.
Moreover - is anybody writing Alex's biography before all the other people who knew him will also be unavailable? It ought to be a great read! In the notes for a compilation album I read that Alex had started out in the British Foreign Service, not found it to his liking and gone off to Paris to train as an opera singer. (He certainly loved opera all his life.) In another book, the story read quite differently: He'd been chicked out of the oreign Service for beating up two subordinates, taken his savings, gone to Paris to study opera, got through the money in record time, and developed the 'blind blues singer' act mentioned above. (Sorry for thread creep. Let's start a thread on Alex Campbell!)