garth cartwright wrote: you apply such an intensely personal perspective to your arguments that the debate becomes couched in combative rather than aesthetic terms.
funny to read this from you, Garth as it used to be characteristic of you to do this very thing. Where did Howard Male go?
garth wrote: I liked Dusty a lot when i was a lonely 16 year old.
timely comment from my point of view as I have been looking back on what appealed to me in my teens and early twenties - was all pop music aimed at such people back then, or did I hone in especially on "Cathy's Clown", 'Let's Think about Livin" and "Runaway"?