“Stax ‘68: A Memphis Story” compiles and annotates the singles released by the iconic soul label in 1968, one of its most fertile years.

“Jim has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere,” he said.

Kroese explained, "We then compared the standing data gathered by the software against timestamps in the video annotated by three human observers, which is considered the gold standard for behavioral observations."

Items include his glasses, the piano he practised on, a painting of the star by royal portrait artist Richard Stone, annotated joke books and piles of sketch ideas.

All these years later, the books on my nightstand are highlighted, annotated and dog-eared.