Lucky Gordon obituary

Jazz singer, hustler and cook whose relationship with Christine Keeler played a part in the Profumo affairOn 7 August 1961, in the Rio Cafe in run-down Notting Hill, west London, Aloysius “Lucky” Gordon, a Jamaican jazz singer and hustler, met Christine Keeler for the first time. It was an encounter that would unravel a scandal and help to secure the downfall of the Conservatives at the 1964 election, ushering in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson. Gordon, who has died aged 8