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Nik Cohn (born 1946), also written Nick Cohn, is a British writer. Life and career. 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.
Jan 21, 2016 · In 1969 the 23-year-old rock journalist Nik Cohn published Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop From The Beginning. It was an instant classic, a fizzy shot of snap judgements, a heady rush...
Dec 2, 2011 · Barely a month after his 22nd birthday, the British reporter, novelist and pop critic Nik Cohn hunkered down in a cottage in Connemara, on Ireland’s craggy western coast. It was the spring of...
Sep 24, 2021 · Nik Cohn and W. David Marx, writing generations and countries apart, have demanded the same answers from fashion. TOKION brought the two together to meet for the first time, and discuss the essential ideas of their books.
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.
Nik Cohn. 3.76. 537 ratings83 reviews. Written in 1968 and revised in 1972, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom was the first book to celebrate the language and the primal essence of rock 'n' roll. But it was much more than that. It was a cogent history of an unruly era, from the rise of Bill Haley to the death of Jimi Hendrix.
Nik Cohn is an Irish writer, the father of rock writing and an epic chronicler of street culture over fifty years. Born in 1946 to a historian father and a mother who’d escaped the Russian Revolution to become a Dadaist muse, Cohn had his first epiphany at the age of ten, where he heard a jukebox blast out “Tutti Frutti”.
