Good to hear. I only know because, nearly 40 years ago, I was involved in organising the Royal Exchange song competition and he entered it under his own name.

My old mate Tony Hardman also entered a song but never got to sing it. I ‘phoned him on the Friday to sort out a date for his heat and he said “I’m glad you ‘phoned now; we’re just off to go climbing in Glencoe.” He didn’t come back and the bodies of him and his climbing partner were found soon after.