hmmmm......just rently i saw a woman plug her mobile phone into the PA. This supplied a backing track and she read the words from the display - but she had to keep stopping because the words were written down so small.

more puzzling still is the singer who has been singing the same song for forty years and still needs the words written down ....

its an odd business.

i suppose its a bit like King Lear when his cruel daughters told him he couldn't keep his retinue of 100 knights. what do you need them for, they asked the old king. and he said, reason not the need.....

why people need to perform, i have no idea. but i think its better theydo, than watch big brothers celebrity ballroom x factor on ice.