I knew Alex pretty well in the late 60s and 70s. The last time I saw him, we spent a whole day drinking scotch while we worked out how he could play "Going Back" in open G, which was all his arthritic hands could manage at that point. I'm pretty sure I've got some tapes of his live performances on reel-to-reel, recorded on my old Akai, but nothing to play them on. The only hope for video would be the BBC, but I'm not too hopeful.

He was a bit resentful that the UK Folk "hierarchy" never took him seriously, despite over 100 albums being produced in his lifetime. He died in Denmark, where he had settled in his later years.

Allan Taylor has probably done more than anyone to keep the flame of the "Guv'nor" alive and I commend his website http://www.allantaylor.com/