Music Book of the day Voices by Nick Coleman review – an enthusiastic history of the best pop singers This sharp history of pop music focuses on the lives and songs of the partially deaf journalist’s favourite singers, including Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin Gathering seriousness … Bob Dylan in 1963. Those examples are the brackets chosen by Coleman, a journalist and critic, to define the sheer velocity of pop’s evolution in the 1960s. Coleman thinks hard about such matters, and in recent times his thoughts have been focused and intensified by misfortune. But this is not really a book held together by a unified theory of pop history. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Music critic Nick Coleman who had an illness that left him deaf in one ear.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2018 07:30 UTC