George Melly

R.I.P. George Melly. Ronnie Scott’s at Christmas won’t be the same without you.

“He was a noted drinker but claimed to have cut down in later years. “I’m very fond of alcohol, but I drink a minute amount compared with what I did at one period in my life, when I drank at least a bottle of brandy a night, plus gins and things during the day,” he said. “Now I’ll have a dry sherry around noon, maybe a glass of wine at lunch and then in the evening I’ll have two or three gin and tonics and half a bottle of wine and probably a couple of brandies, which for me is practically being teetotal.””

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