On reading David Hepworth's piece about Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band in the new issue at lunchtime, I was struck by the sentence "all great bands have an inner drama".

It got me thinking (painful...) that I can't really think of any bands at the moment that have any characters or inner drama that Mr Hepworth was talking about.

I mean I'd be hard pushed even to recognise the bassist of Elbow, the drummer of Coldplay or even the guitarist in Kings Of Leon, if they were to rush up to me in the street and hit me with a wet blanket.

Now this in spite of either having seen them live on stage, on TV countless of times, on YouTube, in the music press, and all being mega selling bands some even headlining events and Festivals such as Glastonbury...

You'd think that with today's multi-media saturation that bands would surely become more recogniseable, but I find it completely the opposite. so, what has happened to the Joey, Johnny, Marky, Dee Dee or E-Street Band characters and dynamics?