Regular readers of Obiter will know that our call for stories about rock 'n' roll lawyers has generated a Phil Spector-style wall of sound of responses.

Our recent piece about the 7.5 seconds-long appearance of Kester Cunningham John consultant Martin Kemp in a 1960s feature film starring Alan Bates, where he pretended to play the saxophone alongside Darlington solicitor Bill Goyder, prompted John Eaton of Leeds firm Lupton Fawcett to get in touch.


'I was disappointed that Martin did not mention that I had also featured in the same film - 'Nothing but the Best' - playing the piano and for a duration of 8.5 seconds,' he writes. 'Perhaps it was professional jealousy on the part of Martin which caused him to overlook the third legal member of the Windy City Seven (as we then were).'


Mr Eaton's other musical claim to fame involved working his way across the Atlantic as a cocktail pianist on the liner Queen Mary. 'One of my favourite moments was being asked by an elderly American lady whose cultural knowledge was perhaps not quite as extensive as she apparently imagined, if I could play Mozart's "I'm inclined to knock music",' he reports.


However, a potential winner of our competition - at least certainly a rival to Musicians' Union head of legal Dave Fenton, who notched up a number one, 'Turning Japanese', with the Vapors - has emerged in the shape of music copyright lawyer Trevor Lyttleton.


He writes to say that although he is not the first lawyer to have had music in a Broadway show (Cole Porter and Arthur Schwartz were there first), he may be the first English solicitor to achieve this distinction.


In 1981, Mr Lyttleton shared with composer Jerry Herman a Grammy nomination for his contribution to the Broadway hit musical 'A day in Hollywood/A night in the Ukraine'. His song 'I love a film cliché' was also performed by Jessica Martin at the Royal Opera House in 2001.


The Gazette profiled him back in 1993, when he was heavily involved in reforms to the Performing Rights Society. The article revealed that he also once wrote an entry for Eurovision. Whether it would have beaten this year's winners, the heavy rock group Lordi from Finland, is of course pure conjecture.