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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781784701338
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 256g
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RRP: £10.99
Voices
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How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life
***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***
‘A brilliant book about singing… I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices] you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it’ Nick Hornby in The Believer
What happens when we fall in love with a voice; the siren call of someone singing?
The history of post-war popular music is traditionally told sociologically or in terms of musicological influence and innovation in style. Voices takes a different tack. In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences – as chaotic, random, challenging and unpredictable as life itself.
Voices is the story of what it is to listen and learn. Above all, it is a story of what it means to feel.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781784701338
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 256g
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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Voices isn’t just illuminating and thought-provoking and clever; it is exciting.
Roddy Doyle
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A brilliant book about singing… I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices] you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it
Nick Hornby, The Believer
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A deeply personal hymn, aria, sea shanty and saloon bar serenade… Voices is not merely an elegantly written study of a parade of fabled artists, but a long, heartfelt song of gratitude. It’s well worth hearing.
Graeme Thomson, The Mail on Sunday
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Unusual and affecting… An elegant, controlled writer whose curiosity is as engaging as his whooping passion.
Jane Graham, Big Issue
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Exhilarating… Coleman hears better and more clearly with half an ear than the rest of us do in a lifetime with two.
Alexandra Coghlan, Spectator
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Not just a gallery of pen portraits of [Nick Coleman's] favourite singers but an impassioned examination of why certain voices ‘speak’ to us… Like the best music criticism of yore, [Voices] tangentially covers the history of popular music… He’s enjoyably sniffy about Jagger; insightful on Joni… but mostly Voices believes in magic.
Chris Roberts, Classic Rock
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A brilliant read.
James McNair, National
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A fantastic writer.
Lois Wilson, Mojo
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[Voices] will have you delving into your music collection with fresh thanks and renewed appreciation.
Duncan Fletcher, Shindig!
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Fans of all genres can dip in for thoughts on nearly everyone in the rock canon.
Helen Brown, **Books of the Year**, Daily Telegraph
