All over the BBC as "the Beatles favourite performer" - and who turned them on to him? Kenny Everett. And who turned him onto him? Me. And who turned me on to him? Davy Jones of The Monkees.

Was he really The Beatles' 'favourite performer'? John Lennon liked him. Ringo liked drinking with him. Did George (famously a Dylan fan) have much interest in him? He was surely too much like Paul (who was much more of a Neil Young fan) for Paul to warm to him.

so JK, nothing is without you!

And JFK wouldn't have existed had William the Conqueror's father not spent a night of passion in a barn in Normandy one wet night, with a local country girl;

or, had an evil nightclub doorman from Surrey not murdered an innocent schoolgirl, Murdoch's Empire wouldn't now be on the brink.

I don't suppose for a minute that the Beatles endorsing Nilsson led to shed loads of "Everybody's Talkin'" being sold. I seem to remember Lennon saying that he was a Madness fan once - but so what?

Ah; cognitive distortion! Someone points out the route someone came to someone's attention and it is assumed he is claiming to have invented the wheel. Nope - that just happens to be the way Lennon got to hear about Harry. Interesting? Perhaps so; perhaps not.

It sounds like you've been in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

I think your ego is playing funny games with you again Mr King

P.S. What time does the Muppet Show begin in Westminster today?

I thought the documentary was good but rather strange. Impressive and illuminating early on, but then it got more and more muddled. Apparently Lennon's production of 'Many Rivers to Cross' (which I always liked, and especially the string arrangement which he re-used for Number 9 Dream) was supposed to represent Harry's nadir. But 'The Point' wasn't mentioned at all, which I thought was a recurring project/folly for him via various media during the 70s and 80s.

I watched and enjoyed the programme. He had a truly remarkable voice but also a very big self destruct streak.

In the programme there was an audio interview with Nilsson in which he said that John Lennon told him that The Beatles first heard of him through their press officer, Derek Taylor.

Derek was certainly around at the time - he may even have represented Harry. But I very much remember Kenny telling me he'd played him to John who had adored the songs.