Very, very sad news.
However, most of my memories of Dave involve me pissing myself laughing - whether it's people getting all steamed up at his spoof interview with Tony Middleton or his dying his hair blond and insisting that he was to be known as "The Soul Fox".
We used to get the bus from Wigan to Bolton after the allnighters and I remember as a naive 15 year old being scared that a few more years on the scene would turn me into someone who looked like him. And his merciless rippng into me for saying the Johnny Jones version of Purple Haze was better than Hendrix one.
Keep on taking the piss wherever you are mate.
Tooley