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.

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.