Rest in peace Trevor Ward-Davies.
The bassist and founder member of 1960s pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - he was Dozy - has died at the age of 70. In the second half of that decade the band from Salisbury spent more weeks in the UK singles charts than the Beatles did and there are more than a few people of a certain vintage who will know all the words to their 1968 number one single Legend of Xanadu. And might also mime the whip cracking accompaniment when they sing along to it.
Mr Ward-Davies is the second member of the band to die following the demise of lead singer Dave Dee in 2009 at the age of 65. The stars of the sixties - that decade we still associate so much with youthful energy - are now past retirement age. Some will be in retirement homes by now, And inevitably they will begin to disappear in greater and greater numbers in the years ahead.
The passing of our youthful heroes is a salutary reminder of the fact that time's winged chariot is always drawing near. The baby boomer generation which has done more to shape our culture and indeed our politics in the last two decades will soon pass on the baton to the next . One hopes that in the latter area they make a better job of it. Whether they'll be able to give us songs as good is, of course, a matter of taste.
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