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Keyboard star returns to festival to bury demons

He’s the local boy made good, although Peter Vettese, ever-ready with a self-deflating bon mot, would describe himself more as a local boy made gone.

 And disappear was exactly what Vettese -- internationally regarded keyboard player, songwriter and record producer -- wanted to do during his last appearance in festival-time Edinburgh in 1979.

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