Usher appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 16 May 1970.
[1] He was forced to retire early in 1970 due to fainting fits.
He died suddenly at the age of 36 in February 1975.
[2] Jeffery Taylor subsequently described him as:[3] "one of the sweetest, most gentle natured beings I have ever met [with] extravagantly arched feet, high arabesque and fluidly graceful arm movements.
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