Re "this great big secret", how true. Three or four of us flatmates used to go and see Richard (and Linda in those days) and we had this running joke when one flatmate mentioned RT, another said "WHO?" This was because of the blank reaction we always got if we recommended Richard to people at work, etc. This was London too, hip cool city blah blah blah.

When you think that every time Lou Reed or Patti Smith pick his/her nose, it's apparently a world shaking event.....but such is the way of the world oh my brothers.