ROB DEACON
1959 - 2010
VT EDITOR
Rob was a dad, a brother, a colleague, a VT Editor, a lifelong Fulham supporter, a punk rocker and a guitarist.
He was born in 1959 as one of four children and brought up in London. By all accounts he had a wonderful misspent youth playing in bands and enjoying all the advantages that being a rock star encountered.
It wasn’t all roses, but at 17 when he left home to work in a local plumbers merchant, he found himself living in his red post office van that he had exchanged a guitar for, with one of his friends.
In that time he played with Adam Ant and Stewart Copeland and roadied for the Damned whilst playing with his own band - The Satellites.
Rob always seemed to take everything in his stride, there wasn’t anything that phased him; at work even the sports APs were unable to rile him.
Rob left the BBC happy that he had his redundancy and it tickled him that he was back the next day as a freelancer. Life couldn’t have been better, he bought his sports car and enjoyed taking out anyone who wanted a ride in it. He had plans to drive down the Italian coast, take lots of holidays and see more of his children, but sadly that was not to be.
Tragically, he was diagnosed with his brain tumour and although he kept fighting with dignity and good humour it wasn’t to be.
Clair Lawrence
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