Dance music could be made on cheap drum machines and samplers, without the need for record labels or even musical skill.

Crucially, though, they ply sweetness as well as sarcasm, and real musical skill.

Artists' improvements in musical skill or change in taste may also account for the change.

It was musical poetry mixed with candor, astute humor, understating always - his immense musical skill.

All of his training aside, his musical skill was said to be an inheritance.