And another thing...

Phil Alexander, editor-in-chief of one of the best music magazines on the market at the moment, MOJO, was interviewed on Today this morning in relation to the fact that it's the 50th Anniversary of the first Fender Stratocaster going on sale.

However, whereas normally, every utterance from Mr Alexander is greeted with delight by me, unfortunately he proved himself to be embarrassingly wrong about something today.

He claimed that the guitar, and in particular, the Fender Strat, has been the most important muisicla instrument of all time.

This, quite clearly, is arse.

If only he'd qualified that sentence with "of the last 50 years" instead, I'd have agreed with him. But to claim the guitar has primacy over, say, the Piano, is ludicrous. Modern music was founded on the piano. And I sincerely doubt that anyone will ever compose something to rival the sheer techincal virtuosity of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues, or to rival the emotion contained in the works of Chopin or Debussy.

But then, I'm a touch biased. I'm a pianist.

(Quiet at the back there!)