I should be so lucky

The Daily Telegraph may be delighted at Pete Waterman's claims that he ripped off Wagner for many of the tracks knocked out by the Hit Factory, but we're not so sure. Apart from causing us to wander round singing "Together forever/ and never to part" and trying to work out what part of the Ring cycle it comes from, Waterman's seen as such a touchstone figure by the people hammering together the rickety craft that a lot of bands are floating about on that his claims in BBC Music Magazine are probably going to condemn us to the charts of Summer 2003 being full of girls looking uncomfortable in bondage gear lip-synching over the top of the Water Music. Ta, pete.