Drunk, the lot of them!!!

Seriously,a couple of friends of mine sing as an acapella harmony duet and they regularly practice (quietly) on the train. They occasionally get an unfavourable response, as in people glaring and getting up and moving. More usually though, they find that people enjoy their singing and express surprise along with comments like "You should be on the X Factor".

While this is doubtless gratifying, it highlights a major problem of the canned music era; namely that people nowadays think that the only people who can sing are specially gifted celebrities, who possess some rare extraordinary talent, and who doubtless make loads of dosh and live a life of wealth and luxury.

Sad, sad, sad, sad.