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O'Connor brings everything to this memoir — Financial Times More…

These 'notes in praise of Black performance' encompass dance, music, film, and standup, along with everyday affectations and embodiments of masculinity, fear, intimacy, and belonging. Subjects... — The New Yorker More…

Remarkable for its breadth and candour about everything: childhood, family, marriages, musical collaborations, love life, heroes, villains, screw-ups (even the most painful) and his songs...there... — MOJO More…

Incisive . . . Thanks to Ratliff's vast knowledge, what could have been a dry academic exercise is more like a trip into the world's coolest record store -- David Browne — Rolling Stone More…

Roger Scruton is in many ways the ideal interpreter of the Ring -- Adam Lively — Sunday Times More…

A loving and detailed biog — MOJO More…

Indispensable ... This is a masterly, highly readable account and the most comprehensive to date of the life and work of one of the 20th century's great musical figures -- Barry Millington — Evening Standard More…

A fascinating memoir tells of life on the other side of the ampersand... optimistic, charming and terribly British — MOJO More…