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Hello Bugle, and welcome to Bugle number 80 for the week beginning Monday the 29th of June 2009.

I'm Andy's Altzman in the morning city of London and I can hardly bring myself to say this in New York City

That's John Oliver

It sounded like you were about to announce that I was dead then.

No, obviously, you know, my...

I'm glad that didn't happen.

My thoughts had just been overcome with the thoughts of the death of a true music legend.

One of the biggest names in world music a revolutionary hugely influential

figures touch the lives of fans all across the world. Ludwig Van Bait-Oven

can't believe he died in March 1827. Yeah it's not not even in her first or is it Andy? No March 1827.

182 years ago. Yeah well doesn't get easier does it? No. Doesn't get easier.

These music lives on, John.

That's important.

Sure he had a controversial life, but you've got to judge the man,

separately from judging the music.

So hello Andy and Andy there are times for all of us when you find yourself

wondering what you're doing with your life. One of those times happened to me this

week when I was filming up in Westchester County outside of Secretary of the

Treasury Timothy Guytner's house and I found myself walking down the middle of a

road in a blue dress and high heels before perhaps understandably having the police calls on me.

And so it definitely undermines your argument over the legitimacy of what you're doing.

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