CORRECTIVE LENS

The self-serving, immature and ignorantly critical comments of Blur’s Damon Albarn aimed at the American rock scene made me feel sorry for the trendy Brit (Pop Eye, Nov. 19). His inward vision is obviously blurred enough so that he can’t see his place in a long line of “English haircut” bands that have been rammed down our gullets over the years.

If, as he states, American rock music is “not happening . . . at the moment,” we only have to look back on the last big British pop invasion of Duran Duran, Culture Club and Wham! to see how lucky we are now.

Albarn complains that Americans won’t accept his little pop band because it doesn’t rock. The greatest English pop band of all time, the Beatles, could rock because they had heart and soul to go with their cool haircuts.

Blur not only doesn’t rock, it doesn’t rank.

DAN MARFISI

Los Angeles