Just thought I'd Google Bryan as something made me think of him. Very shocked that he died at only 58. I met him in the Magus office at Kings, when I was editor so about 1978 (maybe '79). I exclaimed that he was the spitting image of my brother and nearly fell off the chair. We were friends for a few years and he had a room in my flat at the Oval for a while. So sad to read that he's died; he was a lovely guy - always said he wanted to be Prime Minister. RIP Bryan, I have lovely memories of you.

Happy Birthday Dad - you would have been 58 today.

Bryan and I met at Kings College London in 1979 and he came to live with me for 2 years in Cambridge Gardens W10 just off Portobello Road...in scenes reminiscent of "Withnail and I"...we enjoyed student life to the full...Bryan bought our top floor flat the first U2 album and the glories of Van Morrison....I remember that one night he broke the spare bed....it was a riotous 2 years in the best place to be a young man in London...reggae and punk on the streets...and much conversation about politics and the meaning of it all...I will leave the final words to Uncle Monty...one love Bryan...XX PAUL Uncle Monty: The older order changeth, yielding place to new. God fulfills himself in many ways. And soon, I suppose, I shall be swept away by some vulgar little tumour. Oh, my boys, my boys, we're at the end of an age. We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in. Shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour. And here we are, we three, perhaps the last island of beauty in the world.