SOUND MIND: How I Fell In Love With Classical Music

As an emerging music journalist in the 1970s, Paul Morley wrote for NME. No longer excited by modern pop music and determined not to give in to dreary nostalgia, Paul went searching for something new, rare and wondrous, and found it in classical music. His soaring polemic, a grumpy reflection on modern music, rejects the idea that classical music is a drag and instead rehabilitates this genre as the most exciting, radical and varied of all. Both a memoir of Paul's shifting musical tastes and a compelling history of classical music, he explores the genre's rich and often deviant past, and makes a case for its future, all the while recognising its revolutions and revelations. His Coda is entitled 'Music to Listen to While Reading A Book', and other chapters The Piano, The Light and the Dark and The Writing - Finding the Right Words but starting with the To The Planets and Beyond. 599 page illustrated paperback.