March 12, 20169 yr I talked a lot with Oliver Cheatham (when he was signed to Move Records of Edinburgh). We spent a weekend with him in Kirkcaldy when he had a club gig there & then a night out on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh itself. Apart from the wife & I acting as his backing singers (in his hotel room, not on stage), we talked music the rest of the time. Oliver was linked with Al's labels for quite a few years (as Round Trip, Oliver & also solo). He first got an in with Al as the studio roof was leaking & Oliver was a fully trained roofer -- so he was invited to join 'Al's in-team' as long as he mended the roof. From there, they cut many great tracks together. Oliver knew the circumstances surrounding Al's death & told me the full story -- he knew as he was around in the run up to Al's killing & knew the who & the why .... but (it goes without saying) to have told the police would probably have meant that Oliver's body was the next that would have been found.
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