Well, alas, I only met him once, incredibly briefly, and nothing happened of any interest at all. He was very courteous, very polite.I was in awe!He had a bad press of course with people claiming he went around telling everyone what they could or couldn't sing. Well, sure he had opinions, who doesn't, but he didn't go around assaulting people if they were singing the wrong songs. I remember Peggy Seeger reminiscing about a time she had openly and cruelly derided a young singer for singing in the "wrong" accent, but I have no knowledge of McColl ever doing that.