Alan Blaikley, co-writer of a string of Sixties and Seventies pop hits who went on to become a psychotherapist – obituary

• Alan Blaikley, who has died aged 82, formed, with his lifelong friend Ken Howard, one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 1960s, breaking through with Have I the Right?, a chart-topper for the Honeycombs in 1964, and becoming the first British pop composers to write for Elvis Presley.