I confess, I was sure Phil Lesh would be the next to go. But it was their ‘other’ songwriter instead, John Perry Barlow, who died yesterday.

Not a famous man but one who wrote the lyrics to some of the Grateful Dead’s best songs with his childhood buddy, Bob Weir. He was also a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, being a political libertarian, but I’m not 100% sure that was a good thing (although his efforts to increase voter registration certainly were).

Here is a short selection of some of my favourite Weir/Barlow songs: Cassidy, Estimated Prophet, Looks Like Rain, Mexicali Blues, Lost Sailor/Saint Of Circumstance, Throwing Stones, Let It Grow, The Music Never Stopped.