Kevin, he (RobertWyatt) said, had no sense of career, in which respect he was the exact opposite of an X Factor contestant. As his A&R man at Island Records for a short time in the mid-’70s, that was also my experience of a man who came closer than anyone else I ever met to incarnating the archetype of the golden hippie.

Richard Williams remembering Kevin Ayers, who died this week, on his very new and always fascinating blog thebluemoment.com

via thebluemoment.com.