You know Jim.. Sometimes a book can be filed under more than one section. Both genres have all sorts of songs, but it doesn't escape my notice that just about every contemporary writer slips in a lover's ballsache song or two.

Anyway, don't talk bollocks. I got my Rocks off writing punk songs about real people, and not a "folk" song amongst them. Punk rock was if anything about young people hearing their lives reflected in song. What you call folk actually, but with royalties.

For someone pontificating about what you call pop, you haven't a clue. Listen to the words of what you call pop. You might just find the folk definition for more recent times...

Oh, and I wrote many songs about shagging..

In folk circles, I am just another bloke with a guitar mind. I make no distinction between knocking out a Harvey Andrews song or singing a traditional Irish ballad.