I think yours is a good post, Howard. Agree with all that.

I have got any particular personal grievance to air, Johnny. I feel for the artists who are the victims, I admire many of them and think that their music should be out there. Mostly, they were/are not businessmen/women, unlike Dave Bulmer, a dimension oft forgotten. As for this being an obituary thread, there is no rule that we have to avoid criticism on such threads (it's happened on a number of obituary threads here without attracting much comment), and it has been a long time after all...

I'm now making a dignified exit from this thread. I don't think it should be closed but I do think that opinions can be aired respectfully.