| … in this day and age? in a music magazine? a thoughtful, considered critique of a book? when a fair bit of the general talk at the moment is about how the whole idea of criticism has become redundant in the present-day media… but Rhythms magazine’s Des Cowley has established himself as a thoughtful and perceptive critic of music and music books, and he has been kind and of course savvy enough to say some complimentary things about my work in the past, and once again he’s found a bit to like in my Saturday Night Fever 33er. It’s worth noting too how pleased I am that the book and its subject is being taken seriously and no longer just gets the whole mocking ‘Death to Disco’ treatment, which obviously just couldn't fly any more… and for me, as with any book I can spend sometimes years living with in the process of writing, if the music itself couldn’t hold up during that time, I doubt that I could have finished the book in the same conclusive way. I’ve never tired of listening to the Bee Gees and so much more deep disco over the last few years, and as much as anything I hope this book will have a similar effect on readers as the music has had on me... |
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