At last, Brenda Lee is in the Guardian (‘I just loved to sing!’: Brenda Lee on inspiring Elvis, Lennon and Taylor Swift – and topping the chart at 78, 14 December), and I cannot thank you enough. My husband has been a fan for over half a century and our sons have grown up with background Brenda. One of them had to give her a bouquet when she came to Cardiff. My husband is now very deaf, but still devoted, and sometimes plays Brenda at full blast.
Mary Slater
Cardiff
The less-than-inflation rise in the BBC licence fee is very worrying
(BBC condemns low licence fee rise warning of impact on creative sector, 7 December). Could someone suggest a mechanism by which those of us who can afford it could donate £5 extra to the BBC? I think millions would be willing to chip in.
Dr Ruth Saxl
Cambridge
As a member of the British nation to whom the Apollo was donated (Renaissance bronze Apollo donated to British nation to pay inheritance tax bill, 12 December), I would much rather the donor kept their silly little statue and instead coughed up the £10.5m to pay their tax bill with money like the rest of us have to do.
Peter Dewar
Bromley, London
If we celebrated paying tax as much as we celebrate socially worthless substitutes for paying tax, maybe more rich people would actually do it.
Daniel Owen
Torrington, Devon
How wonderful to have a whole page on classical music for once, in Friday’s Guardian print edition. More, please!
Stephen Barber
Witney, Oxfordshire
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