Ken Dodd died.

[Burney]

I was never a fan of the diddymen, though. They creeped me out, the freaks.

He was one of the best-selling recording artists of the 1960s, though. Always worth bearing that in mind when people bang on about the swinging sixties imo. People may have been grooving to Hendrix in London, but in the provinces they were buying Doddy records by the lorry-load.