You may be right about "Memory". But, if so, that says something rather dismal about the voters, who, I suppose, may well be the great (young) unwashed. As they are on this side of the Pond for American Idol. I would hope they would have broadened their taste beyond a would-be classic which which somehow has instead gone straight to the hackneyed stage--and whether it can ever bounce back from that appears questionable.

And the Johnson quote has remarkably little resonance--especially since he ignored it himself--as do all rational beings.