But it could all go horribly wrong – witness the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock's derided appearance in a 1984 Tracey Ullman video.
Their own productions are released on Eskimo which, quite frankly, can do little wrong: witness Lindstrom and Prins Thomas's II, a mish-mash of prog rock, disco and Krautrock, and Daniele Baldelli's Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock!, which explores space-age house music's 80s roots.
Finally, the committee's chairman, Senator Ernest Hollings (D SC), leaned back and whispered to his staff: "It looks to me like Senator Wilson has picked on the wrong witness to try and make his point".
Some nominally legal acts are dangerous for the wrong people (witness Tamir Rice), and some "illegal" acts are open to the right people.
When they mix, things can go wrong badly: witness Hitler's attack on modern art as degenerate and Stalin's promotion of grim Socialist Realism.
Sophisticated arms may also fall into the wrong hands; witness the array of Libyan weapons that have fuelled conflicts across Africa, from Mali to the Central African Republic, since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.These structural changes to African armies may gradually alter the type of war that could be fought on the continent.
First off, don't get me wrong – I witnessed the 1.0 world of copycats, most of which failed miserably.
"I feel sorry for the Maguires as I don't believe they have done anything wrong," the witness said in 1998.
Many in my parents' generation grew up thinking segregation would last forever, I grew up thinking it was wrong and witnessed its destruction, my kids' generation thinks of it as incomprehensible.
(The argument here depends on an illicit assimilation of harming with wronging: the witness certainly harms the murderer by his true testimony, assuming that it leads to his conviction and execution, but there is no reason to agree that in giving that testimony the witness wrongs the murderer).
