Today Usher's point had been that there is a point in a pop star's career "when the screams die down".
Sorry Mitchellell is a Zelig of northwestern rock, turning up at crucial points in pop history, and not only in Manchester.
At a point when Fabian ruled the pop airwaves, the razorback rock and roll of the new Hawks was welcome only in the scuzziest roadhouses.
His career had taken off in the mid-60s, at the exact point when pop began turning into rock, when drugs really began making their presence felt in the top 10, when the Beatles changed from the lovable moptops bowing at the Royal Command performance into the band the Queen later protested were "awfully strange".
They would rather talk about the 80's-vintage Memory Moog they recently bought in L.A., or their unwavering affection for "Good Vibrations," or the pleasures of making pop when the point is not to be pop stars.
A point proved when, on his first weekend in town as president, he popped into a popular neighbourhood diner, Ben's Chili Bowl (benschilibowl.com) in the U-street district.
At some point in the 1990s, he argues, pop started to eat itself.
There was, at one point, Iggy Pop stage-diving in performance by the beach off Collins Avenue.
But at some point, when a guy pops off to you in a bar, don't you have to pretend you are representing the Yankees, the most storied franchise in sports, and not Gramercy Plumbing?
Buffett seemed to suggest that as prices keep rising on an asset, more and more people jump in, pushing prices to unrealistic levels, at which point they pop.
