Sam, with a due allowance for the frailties of human nature, obeyed all his master's behests with that imperturbable good-humour and unruffable composure which formed one of his most striking and amiable characteristics.

Pinkett angry that George betrayed trust, took him for $100K.

She wanted to die. She was a syphed-up junkie whore, she'd have died before she was forty of malnutrition or an accidental OD […].

That insight extends to other musical forms and styles in the age of recording. One of the pleasures in reading Paul Gilroy, for example, is the revelation of his discophilia.