1. He made wearing tweed, Homburg hats and Norfolk jackets fashionable, and popularised the wearing of black ties with dinner jackets, instead of white tie and tails.

2. Before an Adulatory crowd, the beard - and Homburg-sporting LaMontagne spends the whole of tonight's show buried deep in the shadows to the side of his four-piece band, looking like a man who would be far happier singing from the wings