Just to make a point: I got a book about Knapton which informed me of the important biographical detail that WP attended a Methodist class in his youth, the info being based on reports from a local history project in the village. This would have been influential musically, and for me was interesting in terms of links with one specific local political figure involved with Methodism. Nobody said to me 'Well done, that's interesting'. It just goes to show something about some attitudes on Mudcat. It also goes to show, for me, that published 'research' into his musical experiences in life failed, for whatever reason, to produce and interesting fact about the person. For all we know, many more such examples may be mouldering away in the recesses of national sound archives or were simply never discovered.