It needs to be remembered that Sean Hughes was not the man one saw on TV. “More than most, he was obsessed with money,” remembers one old friend. He would see flashes of the old Sean, “but I’d always try to be the voice of reason. He’d talk about art like he talked about football.”The last time I saw Sean, he was not drinking. I shall go to his funeral on Monday, and I will still be asking myself: who was my old friend?

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 05:02 UTC