Ah that's a real shame. I rang him once when he was the Landlord of the Queen Vic, just up the road from here in Great Dunmow. I asked him if he had a box full of 'Better use your head's" in the loft. He didn't, but laughed about it and was taken a back that it went for a £100. He used to play at the Wheatsheaf in stortford as well some times.
Sad news indeed.