Madam, -The Lonnie Donegan obituary (November 9th) is anotherexample of the futile attempt by a certain section of the media toairbrush Elvis Presley out of the history of popular music.
The TV and radio news also mentioned Donegan's influence on John Lennon and Paul McCartney, without mentioning Elvis.
Lonnie Donegan did indeed influence The Beatles, along with manyothers, and he did play an important part in the history of popularmusic.
But the following famous quote by John Lennon is perhaps a littlemore accurate, "Before Elvis there was nothing". - Yours, etc.,
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