And the grown-ups will say "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say "Haven't you heard? Rik is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"
— Kamahl Santamaria (@KamahlAJE) June 9, 2014
And then a particularly sensitive and articulate one will say "Do you understand nothing? How can Rik be dead when we still have his poems?"
— Kamahl Santamaria (@KamahlAJE) June 9, 2014
Rik Mayall as Alan Beresford B’stard MP, with one of the clearest articulations of Tory values I’ve ever heard:
R.I.P Rik.
Thanks for the many laugh’s over the years. Thursday nights sitting at a mates house watching the Young Ones while drinking moonshine and smoking cones was a great way to grow up in the 80’s