James frontman Tim Booth has opened up about his heartbreaking goodbye to his father-in-law who died last month from COVID-19.
The Indie icon was asked by Saville Shela to sing the James anthem Sit Down for him over FaceTime in his final moments. Just 15 minutes later Saville, 83, passed away at Watford General Hospital.
Tim and his wife Kate, who live in Los Angeles, have been unable to fly back to the UK for the funeral. "About five weeks ago my father-in-law died of COVID.
He had it in his living will actually that I would sing it at his funeral," he explained. "What happened was we were able to get to him on FaceTime about an hour before they took him off the ventilator. "He was very coherent and was able to communicate to us through a