I didn't know Dele well but enjoyed running into him over the years - lovely guy. One of the few NME people we at MM fraternized with.
Classic example of the kind of oddball who found a home on the UK music papers he wouldn't have been able to find anywhere else
There's a story I've long cherished about him - and which I've begun to realise may not be strictly true, after reading other accounts in the last day or so about his life story - but I continue to feel in a really profound sense is true - or should be true
When he arrived in England from Nigeria, he had one suitcase with him - and the entirety of its contents were various Factory records (like his beloved Crispy Ambulance) and a vast number of clippings from the NME, articles by his heroes like Paul Morley and I Punman