When I was but a youth I thought being in the music business must be the greatest job in the world as your interest was your work and if that’s the case, then it’s not really work. Having journeyed on a bit since then, I’ve changed my mind. The glimpses we were given into the world of music was almost always filtered through the lens of journalism and reporting, and it was skilled practitioners of that art that made the subject fun.

Listening to you and Mark chat in the WIYE podcasts, watching your Insta reels and reading the books as you say the music is the subject but the fun is in the telling of the story, and the ability to deploy a finely honed Wodehousian phrase - the line about 16 track technology giving Pink Floyd “fifteen additional ways of avoiding making up their mind” is a particular favourite of mine.