Is anyone else sad about this? Because I am...

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\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1725211,00.html\Ivor Cutler died}

I only found out today. What a shame. He often used to come into the bookshop I worked and bring us sweets and stickers. Bless him.

Yes.
Thanks for the link - didn't know all the biographical stuff.

My father always plays his Ivor Cutler records on New Year's Eve, esp Life in A Scotch Sitting Room.
(Scotland gets its brains from the herring.....)