It was hard to feel particularly sad about the passing of...

It was hard to feel particularly sad about the passing of JD Salinger: most of us had become accustomed to the idea that we wouldn't be hearing from him again. I am glad that January 2010 is over, though, because in the last four weeks, a lot of people who meant a great deal to me at one time or another passed away. Apart from Salinger, we lost Willie Mitchell, the man responsible for the sound of Al Green and Ann Peebles and OV Wright; Bobby Charles, the Cajun white soul singer, whose 'I...