…now, hear me out for a minute, Lads and Lassies of Blog Land… I’m not suggesting for a nanosecond that’s there’s no entertainment talent around the planet nowadays… and maybe it’s coz I’m kinda slipping into that ‘it-wasn’t-like-that-in-my-day’ period of my life… but I find it difficult, if not well nigh impossible, to tune in to much of what passes for current vocal music… p’raps it’s the deluge of reality shows that pander to the least-common-intelligence-denominator… or the nonsense that passes for televised news—the eternal three minute loops of sum’thing captured on a mobile phone in downtown crimesville… repeated ad-inforever-um, squeezed between the competition for the most inane advertisements on yer TV screens… back then, there were men and women who prided themselves in the quality of their performances on stage, in front of live theatre audiences… not what they did in front of the paparazzi in some…