But gaming is a multibillion-pound player now, the point where arts meets tech, and as embedded in British culture as telly, without being quite so generously acknowledged.
Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Richard Burton, George Best – sometimes it seems like all the most talented men of the British 20th century were total and utter boozehounds, quite prepared to generously donate their gifts to the bottom of a whisky glass, and after that, the floor of the pub.
Instead he refined into an act what had once been a spiritual compulsion and exploited his fame, quite consciously and generously, with a keen sense of obligation to his audience, by taking up various causes of the week in his still-much-clamored-for grand manner.
In Ravi's autobiography, "Raga Mala," (with a forward by George Harrison and many additional contributions by him), he writes generously and quite touchingly of the early years of their friendship.
Those who have benefited most from the conditions which have been to their advantage, whose means have been most generously enhanced should quite properly be expected to contribute proportionately.
