Between Us
He finds it strange to talk about all this without her. David Longdon was one of the last people to visit Judy Dyble, sitting with her just the day before she succumbed to lung cancer in July, aged 71. When Prog catches up with him, it’s just a week after her funeral, and he’s still understandably raw. Due to current restrictions only 20 mourners were present but many others attended via an online stream, and at the request of Dyble’s children Longdon gave a eulogy, focusing on her musical career.
“I wanted to do it,” he says, “so that, if she were there, she’d have found it moving but entertaining. Because that’s what she was – you couldn’t be serious for too long around Judy. She was one of the few members of Fairport Convention who’d get their lighter back at a show
