A King At Nightfall - Farewell To The Hypertension Kid

After a long illness Clive James succumbed to Leukaemia last weekend. A true great has died, on balance the greatest critic and cultural influencer of the last fifty years.

I've encourged you to do this before but if you have not yet done so please take on board the songs that James wrote with Pete Atkin. They display a gargantuan wit with elegance and affection - pete atkin/clive james

A sample:

Last night I met the Hypertension Kid/ Grimly chasing shorts with halves of bitter/ In a Mayfair cub they call the Early Quitter/ He met my eyes and hit me for a quid

Beautiful and so very clever. As they say in Wayne's World, we are not worthy.