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.