Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

To this day, I've never had a hit in England. Year of the Cat was a hit everywhere in the world except England.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

There's really two parts to this. We're asking for a quick judgment to cover the legal fees and then for the court to make the insurance companies pay any claims.