on BBC Brekkie - I cannot tell you how I hate badly done trans-genre versions - I tried hard (Satisfaction - country; Hooked On A Feeling - reggae pop; In The Mood - disco) to make mine interesting, individual, clever; some worked, some didn't (Rock Around The Clock with string quartet).

But his treatment of songs to all sound choral seems awful from the one they played (plus the worst video ever contender).

Yesterday Elaine Paige played Susan Boyle doing A Perfect Day. I could actually hear Lou turning in his grave (diabolical doesn't begin to describe it).

I quite agree. Malone is getting plaudits for making the kind of music they used to play quietly in Woolworths.

I saw a movie adaptation of Noel Coward's Easy Virtue a few years back in which the soundtrack featured a selection of songs such as Sex Bomb and Car Wash, all sung in a faux-1929s style by people who sounded so pleased with themselves. Horrible, stupid and pointlessly distracting.

I loved the BBC promo version of Perfect Day but that's spoilt for me by Lesley Garrett's absurd 'Oim-ah glahhd oi spehnt it with-a-yooooo' second-rate diva routine. She's not even any good at opera! I couldn't even bear to listen to a second of Boyle.

I haven't heard Boyle's version (and I hope I never will), but Reed was pretty good at doing bad versions of his songs himself (with a lot of help from Renée Fleming in this case):