She never mentions Amy Winehouse byname, but from the castigation of her target's "junkie routine" to the hip-hop sheen coating the girl-group glitter of multi-instrumentalist Adam Pallin's brightly chiming piano, it could hardly be anyone else.
But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group byname and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.