Nick Hornby, Stephen Frears, Roddy Doyle, and Alan Parker. In 2006 I read a book called “The Complete Polysyllabic Spree: The Diary of an Occasionally Exasperated But Ever Hopeful Reader”. This was a collection of the columns that Nick Hornby wrote for several years in the Believer, and the idea was the following. Nick would by each month a few books, read them and report about them in the magazine. This appeared to me as a simple, but still quite ingenious idea. Naturally, the coincidence between what he bought, read and reported on, was never 100 per cent, but that is really beside the point. I had great fun reading that collection, since it allowed me to discover some other extraordinary books. I cannot fail her to recall that Nick Hornby also wrote High Fidelity, later passed to the big screen by Stephen Frears, in a most inspired film. In there, it’s all about music, and how the character played in the film by John Cusack simply manages to mess up all his most promising relationships with several women. This brings me almost in direct line, at least in my mind, to The Commitments, the film and the book. The second was written by Roddy Doyle, and the first directed by Alan Parker, with Roddy co-authoring the screenplay. All solid names, and indeed The Commitments is a fabulous film, where music prevails again, and where Jimmy Rabbitte (odd name) pushes along to put his music band together. To all the four guys mentioned in the beginning, thank you for putting this together.