This month it seems that Glen Campbell and Tony Christie are being inducted into the Hall of Fame's Inner Sanctum Of Credibility through the tried and tested method of releasing albums of cleverly chosen, well produced and sensitively sung covers.
This month's Observer Music Monthly is promoting Take That to Abba like retrospective credibility.
I have no problem with this but are there artistes who are beyond credibility rehab?
I offer you Tom Jones - I can't take him seriously despite his Art of Noise period.

All of this prog nostalgia reminds me of an incident at school in the mid 70s.

A particularly fundamentalist teacher at our catholic school picked up a copy of a classmates' copy of Genesis live. He observed Gabriel in some sort of mask and read the sleevenotes telling the tale of a girl on the tube reaching between her legs and unzipping her skin (or some such tale). The teacher declared Genesis to be "satanistic pornography" and gave us a lecture on the corrupting power of rock & roll.

I have never therefore subscribed to the view that Genesis were a bunch of harmless toffs who, by their own admission, can't dance.

Was anyone else lectured at school on the evils of Rock & Roll?