I think it was probably 1968 when we first met, Jonathan. This seems to be the first fairly balanced piece I have read on you for some years - I hope it makes a difference. Oh, and by the way, I havent ever stopped playing your music!

Thank you Rodney; yes, indeed - many years! Thanks for staying loyal.

I read this in the car on my way home tonight. The main photo is hardly flattering, but a good article.

PH just wait until YOU reach 66. ANY photo is flattering as long as you're around to see it!

JK2006 wrote:
PH just wait until YOU reach 66. ANY photo is flattering as long as you're around to see it!

Good article, JK. Well done.

Except for that first photo of you a very positive article.

I like the photo - I'm making "the face" picture editors ALWAYS select.

Actually it was the first article I read on my new Independent app for the Blackberry phone. Very astounded to see something so well written without any 'side'.

I'm astonished. It's a well balanced non judgmental piece like journalists are supposed to fucking well write.

Bravo for The Independent actually doing it and not being brown beaten by the ghastly gutter rags.

I contrast it with Anne Diamond and Charlotte Church's evidence to the inquiry and the comments in the DM where people are just so fucking vicious to them...it's as though these ghastly vicious creatures out there in the public who are seething with hatred for whatever reason are the ones to be satisfied rather than publishing attempting to raise standards.

For 3 decades now Britain, Oz and the USA have been under the thumb of a nasty vindictive media mogul. He;s dragged most of the rest of the media into the gutter with him. He;s used sex and the fear of sex..the fear your children will be snatched off the streets and at the same time has promoted war in which tens of thousands have been killed. I hope there is a hell.

Quite an amusing letter in the Independent this morning Tuesday. Well, it made me smile.