Farewell Iain Banks, writer
he too had the best of starts, born to be a Fifer
learned he was about the malted spirit
a tough task, but someone's got to do it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer
P.S.
We were about the same age and were both born in the same town, but I don't think we ever met. Perhaps we led-off with a different foot?