"A teenage rock pop tart who has all his hair"

One last e-mail (for now, anyway) has arrived from Peter "Herman of the Hermits" Noone, on the matter of Niki Lee's description of his fans at Pier 6 a few years back. (I must say, hearing directly from one of the major music stars of my early teenhood has been cool.) It doesn't sound like Noone is a go for a meeting at Hershey Park this summer, but at least I think we've heard the end of hostilities. For her part, readers should go to Miss Lee's blog (I Hate The Word Blog blog) to see what she has to say today. (When I spoke to her Saturday, she did not care much for Noone calling her a liar, and she e-mailed me several photographs of very happy, bloated women at the Pier 6 concert in 1998 to support her description of the crowd.)

More from Peter Noone:

"I have no problem with her, if she leaves balding ladies alone. . . . I am sort of bemused by your mention of my googling myself everyday. Perhaps I should explain. Google offers a free service in which they email you if your name (in my case my name) shows up anywhere on the Net. I am above average intelligence, and have used this as a tool to track what is being written about me, and to make it easy to correct any possible errors as to who I am, and what I am doing or not doing.
"Being a geek has enabled me to create a way to connect my fans, and I have a chat room and go in to chat to my followers after every concert and to read their criticism and ask for their input on what I could do to improve my concerts or their experience at a concert.
"I have a group known as the NOONATICS (rhymes with lunatics) and I am very, very protective of my followers, so I took the bald routine to be nasty, mean-spirited and uncalled for. When a person goes to a Bobby Sherman concert, I think they are probably trying to look their best, and hope that Bobby sees them, falls in love with them, leaves his family and moves to Baltimore.
"I doubt any woman who is losing her hair, wants to be ridiculed by someone with good hair?
"Perhaps I am being over protective of the fans?
"I was pleasantly surprised by your offer to broker a peace settlement, and I think you can tell Miss N\ki that I am over the whole thing and will now go back to my own blog and try to remember that resentments are not appropriate.
"I wish her well, and hope she gets my point. Just a quick closer: I NEVER GET IN A LIMOUSINE. I walked to that concert because I need humilty, and I have the ability to learn from my mistakes as a teenage rock pop tart who has all his hair and a wonderful following. Bobby probably has a good following too,and is a real gentleman, which I will not claim for myself."
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Peter Noone
Herman