My friend Robin Le Mesurier, who has died aged 68 from cancer, was a rock guitarist best known for his work with Sir Rod Stewart and the French actor and singer Johnny Hallyday.
The son of two of Britain’s most well-known actors, John Le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques, Robin described his 1960s childhood in his birthplace of Earl’s Court, London, as “charmed, bohemian but also chaotic”. Woken up in the middle of the night by the likes of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, as well as various jazz musicians jamming loudly in the house, didn’t seem out of the ordinary. “To me, visitors such as Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Harry Secombe were just friends and colleagues of Mum and Dad,” he said.
