Mike...... strange as it may seem you will not find anyone more positive and encouraging than me. My pet hate as you are probably aware is right wing exploitation and people who get undeserved success. Most folk only remeber these posts. I have been exploited all my life but still remain positive. I love to help up and coming acts but like a dog to a bone am compelled to chew when anyone mentions Simon C or SHALLOW pop music. Do not get me wrong some of the pop music is pretty good...but some of it is woeful. I do not blame the stars so much as the SCs promotor types of this world. God I nearly signed myself for one of them in the late sixties. Narrow escape....fame is not all it is cracked up to be if you know what I mean.

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