Ray Lowry

On the news of the death of John Peel I felt that a door had shut on a rich part of my past.

I felt the same sense of loss when I read that Ray Lowry had gone.

Inspired by his cartoons, I once turned up at Bournemouth's Midnight Express in 1982 with a rockers quiff and "Too Drunk To Live" on the back of my bikers jacket.

We have lost another one-off from the golden-era before post-modern wank and we are all the poorer.