Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

What is it with comebacks?What does it say about us as audiences? What does it say about the authors and musicians, the creators and artists we love, when after a decade or four in solitude, they decide to triumphantly come back and try to nurse cold embers into a blazing fire?Most of the time it’s for money. And most of the time, it’s a flop.My Dad is a huge fan of the band, Cream. Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker. We grew up with their music blasting around the house. Apparently I’m named after Jack Bruce!But Cream broke up in 1968. Dad never saw them live. So when the band announced a reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, we all assumed Dad would do anything to go.‘Go on!’ We said. ‘We’ll remortgage the house, if that’s what it takes.’But Dad decided not to go. And whether or not this is true, he gave me a really interesting reason.‘I don’t want to spoil the image I have of my favourite band.’I think about Harper Lee. She published To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most loved and influent