hello Reader, in response to what Tag wrote:

How did Nick Drake influence Elton John? Now that is puzzling.

I possibly sense from the tone of the last letter that you ask this question with a small sense of sarcasm? well the answer to your puzzle is thus: I think I'm right in writing (can any one correct me?) that the very first person ever to cover Nick Drake songs was in fact Elton John. I believe he recorded four songs (Day Is Done, Saturday Sun, Way To Blue and Time Has Told Me) on a demo way back in 1968. As far as I know these songs are available on bootlegs only. So you may well think Elton john is now a very rich man with a partially cured hair problem, but you can't deny that B&S and EJ both draw a pon the same musical influences. so there you go Bryter Layter, Benjamin PS Anagram of Belle & Sebastian: See Bill & be Santa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------