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I then forgot all about this, only realising I should have been at Radio Sheffield when it was too late to get there. Years of Gold http: A man with more talent than his jokey image portrayed. Brought up by his mother and grandmother after his parents divorced, Capstick was an undistinguished pupil of Mexborough Grammar School, and took jobs on the railways and in an abattoir before establishing himself as a musician. I had provisionally though about asking him to do something at the proposed Sheffield Folk Festival next year.

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The habit worsened after the collapse of his year marriage to his first wife, Carol, in Dave Burland From a Lancashire Lad We didn't have televisions, shoes, capshick bedclothes, we made our own fun in the old days.

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Me and my father worked a 72 hour shift and then walked home 43 miles through the snow in our bare feet, huddled inside our clothes made out of old sacks. I would dearly love to have a copy hoe that. I think any remaining copies of that reside with Dave Bulmer.

We gets t' top er t' ill an we cud see t' street light twinklin in ar village, ann me fathher luks darn at me through t' icicles angin' off is nooas an sez, "nearly om nar lad!! He was a true original.

: Obit: Tony Capstick (UK) (October )

We became firm friends after that I think he was everything that was great about Radio Sheffield. When Wendy and I got married 20 years ago Tony was the main guest at our village hall concert. I have downloaded it successfully but can't play it back as I am at work so I am only presuming that it works okay.

The track was recorded in a single take and soon displaced the original A-side. He was a great character with plenty of stories.

He will certainly be missed, and not soon forgotten. Every time I tried to find out more there was a different story - they were waiting for the artwork, and then they were homd for a more tracks to make the CD a commercially viable length. Tony was a great entertainer but led a very complex private life - his heart and his liver paid the price.

We reminisced on air and eventually he wound up the interview by saying, "You forgot to turn up, I forgot the CD, welcome dear listeners to the Capstick and Burland Alzheimers hour. Rickets a diseaseDiptheria a disease Hitler a diseaseand it's true that we did look funny having to go into school with trousers so bare you could see your bum in them, and everyone had their head painted purple due to the contraction of ringworm.

They don't seem to have the things today that we had in the old days: Despite a string of court cases, listeners - and, for longer than would have been the case with many employers, the BBC - took a benevolent line, if only because his unpredictable genius was capable of producing brilliant radio. Drinking was a problem throughout Capstick's adult life: Does anybody have the words?.

I think he would have seen the joke in that. I had provisionally though about asking him to do something at the proposed Sheffield Folk Festival next year.

I feel so sad really that Tony and so many other talented performers destroy themselves by hitting the bottle. We'd lots o' things in them days they 'aven't got today: All our love goes to Gill and his family.

Tony Capstick

To add a further surreal touch, the dummy was lifesize, looked remarkably like Adolf Hitler, and had its head mounted on a broom handle which meant that he could harass the front two rows of the audience with it. From then on he became a regular at the club with his best hoome Keith Foster, as he did for many clubs in Rotherham and Sheffield and, before long, clubs further afield; in fact we couldn't get enough folk music and audiences couldn't get enough of him.

Well me Mam's in the kitchen, trying to knock up a snack, From a chicken we had this afternoon, Joe says, "Where's toilet?

This was a time when most parts of Britain seemed to be producing folk singers who were, in fact, better as comedians: He remarried only 2 years ago, and I believed he'd got his act together. More recently, he often appeared in "The Last of the Summer Wine" as one of the two policemen in the panda car who were being constantly surprised by the various antics of the rest of the cast. I rang the station and found they had also been trying to get in touch with me because Tony had forgotten to bring the CD in question to the station.

Mr Capstick was a regular presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield for more than 30 years, fronting a phone-in show, before he left the station in January this year.

Some Thoughts An appreciation by Dave Burland I learned comse the tragic death of Tony Capstick on the afternoon of Thursday, 23rd Octoberand I have spent a great deal of time since mourning the loss of a friend whose life affected my own in no small way.