When Lord Orsam was a fresh-faced schoolboy - for, yes, there was such a time, long ago - one of his friends participated in a debate during English class at secondary school to advocate on behalf of the proposition that electronic instruments were killing music, or something similar, and needed to be banned. This was during the early 1980s (probably 1981) when songs which used synthesizers were starting to dominate the pop charts. His friend played the piano, liked the gro