Quite a strong lineup of geriatrics; I may even attend. Of course Radio One and 6 Music and the others have equally attractive current music stars but are they? I hate to have become a member of the "they don't make them like they used to" brigade, but it is strange that this specialisation of music appears to have created a substructure of mini stars - who are loved (as much as we used to love?) by tiny minorities but who have little or no crossover, mass appeal.

I'm quite happy to admit this may well be an age thing: for me artistes like Oasis and Blur and Robbie have very little charm or appeal and seem to attract much smaller international fan bases than 60s and 70s stars.

Or is it a combination of the two? Less mass appeal quality, smaller attention span, greater ease of expressing "love"...

We're in Twitter age where 140 characters will do nicely. Why bother with days of passion, huge expenses, hours of devotion when you can say it in 140 characters and move onto something else?