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1981: the year Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles, US embassy hostages in Tehran finally returned home and several IRA hunger strikers witlessly committed suicide challenging an iron-willed Margaret Thatcher. 1981 was also the year President Sadat of Egypt was assassinated during a military parade and Rupert Murdoch purchased The Times of London to systematically begin destroying one of the world’s greatest newspapers. 1981 was also the year contemporaries, family and friends gathered to mourn the unexpected death of a prominent 42-year-old English landscape painter on the cusp of international fame. The assemblage prompts recollections of halcyon art school days, the careers of three friends who attain pre-eminence, respectively, in the fields of painting, theatrical design and illustration, and concludes with equally unexpected life-changing revelations Events occur principally in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, the United States and characterize in many ways the 1960's and 1970's, decades when personal courage and individualism were rife, social networking involved face-to-face encounters, political correctness lay dormant in some mediocrity's brain and a mouse was a petite four-legged rodent.