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Their first four albums are sublime, they really are. I'm not a fan of anything after Siren (which is good but not great) but prior to that album they were truly magnificent. "Roxy Music" is surely the finest debut album ever. What happened to Ferry i just don't know, had he kept apace with the quality of his early years he'd have surely had a shout for one of the greatest of them all, unfortunately he didn't. Any other fans on here?

I'd fucking love to destroy this pompous twat, and the HFSG don't come out of this in the greatest light either, but then again, they've always been a bit toothless. Someone should really get into Luke Traynor about this as well, both sides of the story an that Liverpool lecturer Rogan Taylor's Hillsborough fee 'mistake' - Liverpool Echo.co.uk A LIVERPOOL University lecturer accused of cashing in on Hillsborough today won the backing of families of the victims. Professor Rogan Taylor was criticised in a Sunday newspaper which claimed he demanded £450 to speak to a Danish journalist about the 20th anniversary of the disaster. An email from the lecturer to a Scandinavian TV company reportedly said: “We can arrange the actual time nearer the day... “I will require a fee of 500 (in euros!) All the best, Rogan.” But today the Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG) said they had “every confidence” in Professor Taylor’s integrity. They also highlighted the thousands of pounds donated to the organisation from the sale of his Hillsborough book. The HSFG met the lecturer at Anfield yesterday where they “recognised the valuable work he has done over the 20 years”. Prof Taylor spoke of his “hurt and anger” after the story but conceded: “Let me first hold my hands up. It was a thoughtless email to send and I am sorry for it.” The professor, who heads Liverpool University’s Football Industry Group said: “My request for a fee which a TV company like this would be very unlikely to pay was really another way of saying 'No, thanks' – setting the hurdle so high I knew they wouldn’t leap over it. “And for what ‘great sin’ am I effectively labelled a ‘Profit of Death’ (headlines in the Sunday Express)? “Because I asked to be paid to do my professional job for a foreign TV company that thought it could make some money by making a film about Hillsborough? “The hypocrisy is miles deep.” April marks the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives on the Leppings Lane terrace in Sheffield. Rogan Taylor's statement This Sunday I was the subject of a attack through the Sunday Express about asking for payment to work on a film about Hillsborough being made by a Danish TV production company. Under a headline, ‘The Profit of Death’, the article included quotations from two people bereaved at Hillsborough who were understandably upset to get a phone call from a journalist asking them what they think about people ‘profiting from Hillsborough’. The story was the result of an email I sent to the Danish company which they leaked in order to damage me. Let me first hold my hands up – it was a thoughtless email to send, and I am sorry for it. But let me explain: I’d received a request to contribute to the Danish programme and I was really too busy to accommodate them on the day they proposed. But when you make most of your living as a ‘writer and broadcaster’ as I do (I’m not a professor in a university – as wrongly stated in the article – I work part-time in one as a lecturer), you don’t like to just baldly say, No. But that’s what I should have done. Instead, I wrote, “I've got two days of interviews…. but I should be able to fit you in sometime on those days.” My request for a fee which a TV company like this would be very unlikely to pay was really another way of saying, 'No, thanks' – setting the hurdle so high I knew they wouldn’t leap over it. Maybe the Danish journalist involved, Lars Mathiasen, didn’t realise that - or maybe he did? Whatever, was his nose so desperately out of joint, that he decided the best stick to beat me with was the Hillsborough families? It certainly looks like that. He knew what would happen when he leaked that email. And for what ‘great sin’ am I effectively labelled a ‘Profit of Death’? Because I asked to be paid to do my professional job for a foreign TV company that thought it could make some money by making a film about Hillsborough? The hypocrisy is miles deep. Or are they all working for nothing and any profits they make will be passed straight back to the Hillsborough families? The facts are these: I’ve never asked for payment for my part in over two dozen radio & TV documentaries about Hillsborough made in UK over the past twenty years - and I took a year out of my professional life to write the 'Day of the Hillsborough Disaster' book, with 100% of the royalties going directly to the Hillsborough Families Support Group forever. That is my personal and professional tribute to those who suffered in the worst football disaster in British history. In this anniversary year, I am currently working on three Hillsborough projects for the media in UK – none of which involve any payment at all. Some of the people who are closest to this tragedy, officially represented by the Hillsborough Families Support Group, gave me a unanimous vote of confidence, at their meeting at Anfield when I represented myself to them on the same day as the publication of this story. I am very proud to say that they later formally expressed in a public statement their support for me and their "complete confidence in my integrity”. Nothing could mean more to me right now than this reassurance. The sad birthplace of this story's publication lies in a pathetic desire by one journalist (who presumably is getting paid to make a programme about Hillsborough) to get revenge on another, fellow journalist, just because I didn’t leap at the chance to work for nothing at a very busy time. So, to get at me, he triggered a story in a tabloid that would be bound to hurt the people most vulnerable. Collateral damage. As the Families say, they’ve seen and felt it all before. You will easily imagine how hurt and angry I was when I read the utterly tasteless headline, ‘The Profit of Death’ next to my photograph. But for me, the very worst aspect of it was to see the Hillsborough families used and abused (once again) in this way. It is absolutely contemptible to set in train a story which is bound to rub a sharp stick into the living wounds of people who have suffered such terrible loss and massive injustice for twenty years – and all just to gain petty revenge on someone who doesn’t really want to take part in your TV documentary……. Statement from the Hillsborough Family Support Group The HFSG is the official body that represents the majority of families bereaved by the Hillsborough Football disaster on 15th April 1989. It has always been recognised for the past nearly 20 years as the official channel for all press comment from those families. That remains the case today – hence this statement. We take great objection at the article published today in the Sunday Express Newspaper which attempts to smear the reputation of Dr Rogan Taylor – allegedly in our name. No contact with this group has been made by the said tabloid prior to publication and a copy of this statement is being sent to the Editor registering our total disbelief at such poor journalistic standards, and demanding the right of reply. In the light of this article we invited Dr Taylor to address a full family meeting, which was co-incidentally being held at Anfield today. Following that discussion it was unanimously agreed by the families (in Dr Taylor’s absence) that we should publicly recognise the valuable work that he has done over the 20years and to make it absolutely clear we have complete confidence in his integrity. We also wish to reiterate that Rogan has constantly worked to focus attention on all matters relating to Hillsborough, including the suffering and injustice the Families have received. He enjoys our respect for his intellect, strong views and both advocacy and journalistic skills – even though we disagree on some points of policy. Regarding the charge of ‘profiteering’ from Hillsborough, we confirm that to-date the HFSG group has received many thousands of pounds for our cause as a direct result of Dr Taylor donating the entire royalties from the sale of his Hillsborough book. The idea of him ‘profiting’ from the Hillsborough tragedy is clearly ludicrous and highly offensive - to us as much as to Dr Taylor. We consider him a hero not a villain. Until we receive a satisfactory explanation from the Editor we believe we are perfectly entitled to conclude that this is again a cheap attempt by a tabloid newspaper to cause dissent at and within Liverpool – regardless of the pain it causes the families at this sensitive time. Trevor Hicks – President HFSG.