I AM writing in response to Andy Waddington's letter "Free to Listen" (Citizen, July 16).

You feel free to listen to all this fourth-rated trash if you want to. There is enough of it about.

Most of today's easily-impressed younger generation wouldn't know a decent group if they fell over one.

At least the great music I listen to has stood the test of time and is original - not like today's five-second wonders who are here today, gone tomorrow.

Today's music is just empty-headed nonsense, fit for filling empty heads.

P Howarth, De Lacy Street, Preston.

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