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RIP Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers fame. I've still to make a ferry trip across the Mersey.

One of my Twitter favourites, Jane Kelly of The Spectator, Salisbury Review and The Conservative Woman, has tweeted a personal anecdote about him tonight that I think is worth sharing on the grounds that, despite all the myriad faults of the increasingly censorious Twitter as a medium, some tweets are almost haiku-like in their brevity and power of suggestion:

I once interviewed Gerry Marsden. We had a wild night. He hid my note-pad so I had to keep going to the loo & making notes on the loo paper. When the piece appeared apparently his wife was mightily displeased.