What has age or money got to do with the way a group performs?

GIVEN the necessity of providing controversial copy to sell newspapers, your review of The Eagles’ concert in Dublin (Irish Examiner, June 12) hardly comes as a surprise.

How the combined age of a group or the amount of money they earn are important factors in how they play is beyond me. Do all music critics need to be cynical begrudgers with a dearth of positive traits in their make up? So it would seem. It may come as news to them that real artists don’t need to cavort frantically around a stage in order to entertain.

The concert was a lesson in quality entertainment. Walsh, Henley, Frey and Schmidt are a class act and will hardly be exercised by the opinion of some jumped-up scribe trying to make a name for himself as they jet across the Atlantic, pockets swelled by their effortlessly earned bulging millions.

Glen Frey joked during the show that their manager wants the group to make a comeback after their deaths. It is to be called The Reincarnation Tour.

Real Eagles fans will only be too happy to attend.

Philip Cullinane

Ross

Carrick-on-Suir

Co Waterford