Allan Taylor has declared: This will be my last communication on the subject Which is a pity because if he were reading this forum I would like to see his response to Miles Wootton's post.

And since Mr Taylor got nasty and threatened to sue me I would also ask him in relation to the Francoise Hardy recording: did you share the royalties with Miles Wootton or not? You didn't reply to his email - maybe you have fallen out with him - so maybe you could do so publicly, here.

And I would also remind him that it wasn't me who made "unsubstantiated accusations" - I was only picking up on an implication in the aforementioned Zimmerman post that royalties had not been paid to a co-writer - and in the fraternal, idealistic world of folk music this sounded a jarring note, an explanation of which I felt to be in the public interest.

Further, I would suggest to him that he appears to have a track record of airbrushing Mr Wootton out of his musical career. I don't own any A.T. albums but, having checked his own website, notice that there are no writing credits for his first album. In the meantime I having made some enquiries regarding his discography I am told (by friends with more catholic tastes than mine) that this album contained several songs co-written with Miles Wootton but that this is the only one that does not have the meticulous authorship acknowledgements of every succeeding one. And then, when it was reissued in a later compilation, all tracks are credited to him.

Lastly, I would accuse him of obfuscation when he says:
I have no control whatsoever over how our songs are accredited in public.
I simply don't believe this. Are we to understand that, if another musician recorded one of his songs and claimed it as his own, he would simply shrug his shoulders and ignore it?

What a pity that he won't be here to put the record straight.