“When I look at footage of Joe Cocker and other rock stars – and indeed almost everyone else of the time – I am struck by a seeming recent malfunction in the DNA of the human race. Whereas Mr Cocker and his like look mature males with character, today’s specimens resemble schoolboys or, in the case of boy bands, worse still, rent boys. Is it something secretly added to the water to bring about this infantilisation, both physically and mentally, in recently spawned members of the male population?”

Comment in the Daily Telegraph