The tenacity with which remoras attach to their hosts is best illustrated by the practice of sea turtle fishing by fishermen in the Caribbean and off China and northern Australia …, and in Yemen and Kenya, where it continues to this day. A fisherman ties a line around the tail of a remora and throws the fish into the water. The remora tightly attaches itself to a turtle, and the remora and its catch are then hauled ashore.

McGee was one of three siblings, born in 1959 and raised in Glasgow's Mount Florida area. His father, John, was a panel-beater.

The better-off tend to look upon us as lesser mortals.

He hoped to sleep his troubles away.