I have always been proud to call Jim Carroll a friend, proud also to have been associated with him in the Manchester Critics ; but never more so than having read that post above.

Not to be contentious, Jim, and everyone, but Jim left a couple of word out.

Jim wrote " . . . they are held in common by us all . . . ".

Had I had the nous, not to mention the knowledge and wisdom, to have written that post, I would have addded

" . . . they are also held by all of us in trust for one another, and the generations of singers to come".