David Peckham

It's a funny one with Queen. I don't think you'd get many people citing Queen as their favourite band but Bohemian Rhapsody is the country's best selling non-charity single and their first Greatest Hits album is the UK's best selling album. I suppose their output was so varied - all four members wrote - that there's kind of something for everyone in there. Even in Bohemian Rhapsody you get three songs for the price of one. I'm not sure I agree with DF about the pretension thing. I see his point but they, and that song in particular, were so ridiculous and over the top that it always felt it was done with a bit of a wink and tongues firmly in cheeks. There's a quote where, when compared to Led Zeppelin, Freddie Mercury says that they're more like Liza Minelli. I suppose it's a bit like The Bee Gees and ABBA - forty-odd years after the spangles and Spandex, you do realise that there was very solid song writing behind it.

Rainbow were one of the first bands I ever went to see. At the Royal Court in Liverpool 1981, the 'Difficult to Cure' tour. That era of Rainbow isn't anything I'd choose to listen to now, but the earlier stuff about stargazers and men on silver mountains still has a certain bombastic, silly charm. I believe Blackmore has swapped his Stratocaster for a lute and now plays along to medieval madrigals. I think I saw four bands that year, the others were Japan, New Order and The SpeciaIs. I still listen them occasionally, but not as much as I listen to stuff that influenced them -stuff I wouldn't have heard unless I'd read interviews about what they were into: Roxy; Bowie's Berlin trilogy; Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground; Krautrock. The Specials got me into King Tubby, Augustus Pablo etc. The NWOBHM bands I was into really haven't aged well, but Led Zeppelin still sound relevant. I've played 'Whole Lotta Love' far more recently than 'Wheels of Steel'. One genre I couldn't stand around then was soul/ R&B, but really got into the early - mid 70s Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Isaac Hayes stuff, which obviously influenced it, during the Acid Jazz thing in the early 90s. From denim to corduroy in just over 10 years.

They've made an offer to meet the owner. What do you want? Jam on it? Mounting what amounts to a witch-hunt within 48 hours of first posting is a massive overreaction. Tacitly suggesting a boycott, employing multiple social and print media channels and calls to get MPs and the police involved are totally unwarranted. You could do huge damage to a business which has taken nearly a decade to build up. I think you owe it to the owner to listen to what they have to say.

Wouldn't it be better to give them the time to explain? It seems highly unlikely that a vegan bakery, which names its range after 'strong women' is at the vanguard of the far-right. It's a business that has grown over almost ten years in Deptford, one of the most diverse areas of southeast London, without causing offence. I'm not a Greek speaker, and I have no dog in the fight, but by dismissing their replies, and taking to as many media channels as possible, you're guilty of the gaslighting that you accuse them of.