I guess we knew it was coming, but the news that Robert Sandall has succumbed to his cancer is none the less heartbreaking for that. I knew him a little, but I knew him over many years and always liked him: found him funny, interested, shrewd, convivial, and of course very handsome. I even got a free lunch out of lunch when he was heading up press at Virgin. Saw him a couple of times in the last year: he looked ravaged but was as switched on about music as ever. Robert mixed it, in every sense of the term. It devastates me to think of his young daughter at his side when he died. We will do a tribute feature next week: in the meantime, please read his work on RBP.
One Response to ROBERT SANDALL R.I.P.
I read and enjoyed Robert Sandall’s astute music reviews in the Sunday Times for years. I identified with his music tastes – he seemed like someone whose tastes I shared and who wrote in an honest yet fair, and accessible yet intelligent way. I was shocked when he wrote an article about having prostate cancer a few years ago. My first thought was ‘But we’re far too young! That’s an illness of middle/old aged men.’ Sadly we aren’t that young anymore, although we probably all still feel the same way inside that we did when we were 17.
My thoughts and best wishes to his family and friends.