Five Centres

I've got Wednesday's Child by Matt Monro going round my head today. Not because it's Wednesday. I'm not sure why. There was a great programme on BBC 4 recently about Matt Monro. But not once did they refer to him by the epithet "the singer's singer". I'm sure that does refer to him. Like Ol' Blue Eyes is Sinatra, The Queen of Soul is Aretha and The Velvet Fog is Mel Torme. But it didn't get a mention.

It's a shame about Matt Monro really. He has a lovely voice and I really like some of his stuff - We're Gonna Change The World was very much of it's time, about womens' lib, and fair races along. He made loads of money and was well-respected, but he was no oil painting, which probably did for him. That and his drink problem.

I love BBC4. There's always something interesting on, whether it's a Timeshift about ready meals, the history of time, the Kenneth Williams thing last week or the Lefties series. Lefties dealt with things like womens' lib. What an old fashioned phrase that is. Like Gay liberation, unisex anything, the bistro, the male model or the male nurse. No one talks about a man who's a model as "a male model" anymore do they. It lives on in "the male model Norman Scott". Whoever heard of a model called Norman anyway, unless it's an Airfix model of an ancient church.

But I'm not going to bang on about what's on the telly. I've got too much to think about. I'm off to Japan in two weeks!