Sean Body
Posted at 8:10AM Thursday 24 Apr 2008
The gradual demise of specialist and independent bookshops, forced out of existence by greedy landlords, is among the plagues afflicting modern London, and few such establishments have been more deeply mourned than Helter Skelter, which sold literature dealing with popular music in all its forms for almost a decade until its closure three years ago. Now its co-founder and manager, Sean Body, has died from leukaemia, aged 42.
Obituary in The Guardian
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