18 SEPTEMBER 2004, Page 37

Top of the pops

From D.J. Taylor Sir: I have known your pop music critic Marcus Berkrnann for 20 years. He is the godfather of one of my sons. Together we have spent trackless hours playing cricket and loitering in wine bars. But he is completely wrong about Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (Arts, 11 September) which, I can assure your readers, is one of the greatest records ever committed to vinyl.

Di. Taylor

Norwich