In 1962 I was a mechanic at Bell & Nicholson in Birmingham and Dave (or was it Alan) used to come in for a chat and to take our orders, as he was a rep for Ferodo brake linings. One day he confided in me that he and his brother who were part-time entertainers on the folk scene were thinking of going professional, and I recall saying something like "Better to have a go than in your old age saying - what if?", and as they say, the rest is history. On a few occassions in their early days I'd "do a turn" with them with a few Formby songs, but that was before they became famous of course.

They were a wonderful "turn" in what I've come to realise in my old age were the Best Times, but now sady missed, as will be Cosmotheka.

So hail to thee, for we shall never see your like again.