From redesigning Sun logo to refusing a knighthood – how working-class lad David Hockney became UK’s beloved art rebel

CELEBRATED artist David Hockey, who died today, age 88, had a wonderful life, and he knew it. At his studio in the Hollywood hills, he proudly told me: "Every day for over 60 years, I got up and did whatever I wanted. How many people can say that?" Chain-smoking Hockney had been Britain’s undisputed greatest-living...