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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