Brahms

He flattered her by calling her ‘Brahms’s understudy’.

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

The man was Brahms and Liszt.

That man was Brahms and Liszt.

Now if we can all avoid getting Brahms at lunchtime, we'll be fine. Actually that is proving less of a problem the more we gig. No one drinks, snorts or smokes anything (other than fags) before shows.