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Feb 6, 2016 · Nik Cohn thought John Lennon ‘self-pitying’, Led Zeppelin ‘embarrassing’ and rated Del Shannon’s ‘Runaway’ above Van Morrison’s entire career. Bob Stanley revisits his 1969 book. Sat 6...
Oct 26, 2013 · Ironically it was John Lennon—the group’s Nik Cohn, beginning a misguided trip-down-memory-lane that dulled his creative edge for the rest of his career—who put the kibosh on that plan.
May 12, 2017 · But there were also others – including Nik Cohn. "It wasn’t fast, flash, sexual, loud, vulgar, monstrous or violent," he wrote in a contemporary piece for Pop From the Beginning.
Jan 12, 2016 · Wrote Nik Cohn in Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, “Painful and obsessive, [Lennon’s] best songs have been no fun whatever…”)
Feb 9, 2014 · On February 9, 1964, The Beatles walked onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Show and changed rock history. Nik Cohn was around to watch their ascendancy, and he didn’t miss much.
“It’s boring almost beyond belief,” British rock critic Nik Cohn wrote of the Beatles’ self-titled album shortly after it came out in November of 1968. Cohn’s brickbat was just one of two negative reviews the New York Times published upon the release of The Beatles.
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Cohn was born in London, England and brought up in Derry [1] in Northern Ireland, the son of historian Norman Cohn and Russian writer Vera Broido. An incomer to the tight-knit town, he spent most of his time at the local record shop and the walk there, from his home on campus at Magee University College, inspired one of his earliest stories, "Delinquent in Derry". He left the city to attend ...
