It’s Christmas again and there’s never been a better time of year to electrocute yourself. Or have any other kind of high-tech fun your imagination and the fruits of the Cybernetic Inevitable lead you to. In the interests, then, of expanded shopping lists (but mainly to get a lot of good names in here) we went to a whole bunch of popstars and asked the simple questions: “What is your favorite electric toy?, ” “Why?, ” and “How much did it cost?’’ Well, as you may notice, simple questions don’t always breed such simple answers — then again, sometimes they breed real simple answers — and sometimes they breed only partial answers and sometimes (see Ronnie Wood) they breed answers to whole other questions . . . But to be brief (and simple) ourselves: Thank you, popstars, and we hope you never go into electronics manufacturing.

ALICE COOPER