on a Swedish chat show. Earlier today, I was reading the Elton John article in Word (I know...I've been busy) and I'm sitting here listening to Izitso for the first time in years.

I'm thinking, not for the first time, how lucky I was to have grown up in the 70s and how interesting it is to sit here 40 years later and see how the players have evolved. There is no bigger fan of Elton than me but my toes were fair curling reading the piece as he obviously still feels the need to be continuously "on".

Cat/Yusuf, on the other hand, seemed serenely comfortable in his own 60+ year old skin, played a few bars of Father and Son and generally enthralled the audience with his intelligence and poise. I couldn't help thinking that he has ultimately emerged among his contemporaries as the tortoise in the race to be cool.

Lykke Li was on the same program by the way, wonder how that will turn out?