After The Swankers
After Nightingale was ousted from The Swankers he tried to form a new band but without lasting success. He developed an addiction to heroin after his father, an electrician and part-time film technician at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, died in 1981. He was subsequently jailed in the early 1980s after receiving a 6-month sentence for undisclosed "drug-related offences".
The only known gig Nightingale performed after being fired from the Swankers was as a one-off guest guitarist with Brentwood punk rockers Beat of the Beast in 1989.
Nightingale died in May 1996 from drug related complications.
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