AN INSPIRATIONAL CATALYST, HILLS' WRITING LIGHTS UP THE PAGE' ROBERT NEWMAN
'Big, beautiful, bonkers, a little balding, bold and brave like a lion, like a true crusader. Nothing I write about Gavin is good enough: not funny enough, not wild enough or tender enough, and it doesn't do what I want it to, which is to make him alive again.
In publications as diverse as The Face, the Observer, Manchester United magazine and The Idler, he wrote about fashion and football, Ecstasy and ecstasy, patriotism and politics; about kids' stuff and grown-up feelings, nightclubs and what nightclubs are capable of, and what people are capable of...
He won an Amnesty International award for a piece on Angola. He got proposals of marriage sent to The Face... He taught me that you can be idealistic without being naïve' MIRANDA SAWYER