Your obituary of Bob Andy (30 March) reminded of me of a series of graffiti at Hull University in the early 1970s that inserted great thinkers into song titles. In this case: Jung, Gifted and Black. Others included Hegel Don’t Bother Me, and By Durkheim I Get to Phoenix.
Jonathan French
York
• Peter Dickinson, in his fine obituary of the organist Jennifer Bate (30 March), surely understates when he says that her husband George Thalben-Ball, was “somewhat older”. Jennifer Bate was born in 1944, George Thalben-Ball in 1896.
Roger Mortimore
Madrid, Spain
• As a “regular purchaser” of the Guardian for more than 50 years I can assure Keith Flett (Letters, 31 March) that I have never once grown a beard. As for haircuts, even the nightmare of grey roots wouldn’t induce me to have a buzz cut!
Liz Fraser
Blaydon-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear
• Fifteen top cricketing reads recommended (The top cricketing reads for a long and yawning summer, 31 March) and not one by Arlott or Cardus? In the Guardian?
Brian Hartigan
Banstead, Surrey
• Re classic pop for these times (Letters, 29 March), how about Richard Thompson’s Keep Your Distance?
Margaret Coupe
Longnor, Staffordshire
