Well, pop music encompasses the good, the bad and the ugly, for sure, but if you really think that only the Beatles and Ian Dury have made an impact then you haven't been listening. Tune in to Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 tomorrow morning. You'll hear good stuff and you'll hear dross. You'll hear banal lyrics even in the good stuff. Plus ça change. The Beatles could be as banal as anyone. Daddy our baby's gone. I've been doing some more of that editing of pop songs for our dance teacher this morning. I'm stunned by the superb quality of some of the stuff I hate. That's MY problem! Anyway, I don't care what anyone thinks. Everything's good with somebody. But say one word against Carly and you're dead. Or Mama Cass, come to think of it. By the way, Mozart was desperate for money when he wrote The Magic Flute. All his greatest piano concertos, and they are many, were written for him to play at subscription concerts. Beethoven's Choral Symphony was a commission, paid for by the Royal Philharmonic Society.