Boy, somebody screwed up this time. Heads should roll. P45s sprinkled like autumn leaves. In the latest WORD, someone on your payroll has listed "25 or 6 to 4" off Chicago 18 as great song by a terrible band. Wrong, so very wrong, on two counts.

Firstly the "25 or 6 to 4" off Chicago 18 (released in 1986) is by no means a great song - it is in fact pretty much unlistenable - I'm serious, it is unutterably bad (you can download it, free of charge from here if you like Click Here for Crap Version) BUT the "25 or 6 to 4" off the second LP from the artists formerly known as Chicago Transit Authority, recorded in 1970, is magnificent, an iron horse of a song, a great song by a group who were to go tragically ... er ... terrible.

Which brings me to the second mistake - proper Chicago, the Chicago with Terry Kath, a honking brass section and at least one set of cojones between them were a truly great band. Not for them the namby-pamby single volume LP - no, their first three LPs were double albums, their fourth a stonking four volume box set of live material. Their first album remains great to this day, is regular on the old pocket jukebox and would be one of the few that I would genuinely beseech any WORD reader to trot out and buy.

Most comments about music are matters of opinion. My friends, the words above are a matter of fact. Of that there can be no doubt.