Until his untimely death last year, Edwin Starr was booked for my daughter's graduation ball. OK, so he was replaced by the Foundations, and I was lucky enough to hear "Build me up, Buttercup" via her mobile, but I would have given anything to have been able to hear "War" being given the student treatment in the build up to the current Gulf situation, and the period of debate over the legitimacy of the action.

Andrea