When half the world wants to sing in front of you it seems there's no need to listen to music on your own. Or so it is according to Simon Cowell, who this week admitted that he has no idea how to use an
iPod. What's more, he can't stand others who listen to their
iPod around him, he confided to Piers Morgan on his Life Stories show.
The 50-year-old Cowell, probably the world's most recognisable music impresario, went on to say that he viewed music as a "social type of thing", and that listening to music on your own through an
iPod was just "boring". SiCo also revealed that most of his favourite artists came from a soul and R'n'B background, with Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder amongst his most cherished records.
Cowell's refusal to join the
iPod generation is not the first example of famous faces being behind the times in the technology stakes. Famously, Tony Blair admitted to never using email once throughout his time as Prime Minister. Let's hope somebody around these people does know what they are doing!