Sky News - Rick Parfitt

Rick & I had been chatting on text a few weeks before this tragic time. He was in Spain, I was in the UK. We had arranged for me & my wife Lyn to travel to Hamburg at the begining of the year to meet up. Rick was recording his solo album there. I suddenly got Pneumonia and I was rushed into hospital. I was there for about 8 days, I was very, very ill. On Christmass Eve, I was released from hospital. We were driving home and I was shocked to hear on the radio that Rick had died in Spain. Then my phone rang, it was Sky News in the UK. They asked of they could send a driver to pick me up, they wanted me to come in a discuss Rick. They said that they had been speaking to many people that day, but, none of them really actually knew Rick. I thought about it and then agreed to go into their studio.

So, this video is of one very breathless photographer, trying to recover from Pneumonia, chatting about the wonderful, amazingingly funny & lovely, Rick Parfitt. I have to say, that I think about Rick such a lot and miss him. He & the rest of the band, were such a big part of my life. Especially when I first toured with them after me photographing their video Rocking All Over The World. RIP Rick x