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    Nik Cohn (born 1946), also written Nick Cohn, is a British writer. Cohn was born in London, England and brought up in Derry in Northern Ireland. He is...
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  • Night" is the title of a 1976 New York article by British rock journalist Nik Cohn, which formed the basis for the plot and inspired the characters for the...
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  • the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn. A major critical and commercial success, Saturday Night Fever had a tremendous...
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  • employment. In 1941, he married Vera Broido, with whom he had a son, the writer Nik Cohn. In the immediate post-war period, he was stationed in Vienna, ostensibly...
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  • basketball player Nik Cohn (born 1946), British rock journalist Nik Constantinou (born 1999), Australian-American football player Nik Kershaw (born 1958)...
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  • Mindy Cohn (b. 1966), American actress, comedian and singer Nate Cohn, American journalist Nik Cohn (b. 1946), British rock journalist Norman Cohn (1915–2007)...
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  • fiddle player" and "bag-pipe effect". In his review for The New York Times, Nik Cohn recognised the track as "the Beatles five years back, straight ahead and...
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    best recorded track" and praised the "chuck-chuck piano and drum sound". Nik Cohn, writing in The New York Times, gave the double LP an unfavourable review...
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  • hide behind these out-front stars." In his review for The New York Times, Nik Cohn similarly complained that "they hide behind send-up: the middle eight of...
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    sessions for 20/20 (February 1969) continued in his absence. Journalist Nik Cohn, writing in 1968, said that Wilson had been rumored to be "increasingly...
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  • censors were unhappy with the song, and it was banned[when?] by the BBC. Nik Cohn gave the album an unfavourable review in The New York Times, but he wrote:...
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  • critic Nik Cohn, Cohn gave a lukewarm reaction to it. Following this, Townshend, as Tommy's principal composer, discussed the album with Cohn and concluded...
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  • Records. Production for the album was handled by "Henry The Man" Holden, Nik Cohn, Don Juan, Ke'Noe, Master P, Donald XL Robertson and Sinista. There was...
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  • sexuality, comedy and hard edged dance rhythms." In his 2007 book Triksta, Nik Cohn credits Magnolia Shorty with his own discovery of bounce, and the third...
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  • went to see Duncan perform the song live in Liverpool. British writer Nik Cohn described Duncan's recording of "Last Train to San Fernando" as his "nomination...
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  • Northern California and Southern California editions. In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn wrote a story called "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", about a...
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  • medley on side two to be their "most impressive music" since Rubber Soul, Nik Cohn of The New York Times said that, "individually", the album's songs are...
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  • good ... was more or less becoming insignificant again." In 1969, writer Nik Cohn reported that the pop music industry had been split "roughly eighty percent...
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  • 1970 LP's packaging. In a review for The New York Times, music critic Nik Cohn praised Live at Leeds as "the definitive hard-rock holocaust" and "the...
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    Cilla: The Best of 1963–78. Writing in 1969, the rock music journalist Nik Cohn wrote: ...she makes people glow. In her time, she will grow into a pop...
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    British critic Nik Cohn observed of Lennon, "He owned one of the best pop voices ever, rasped and smashed and brooding, always fierce." Cohn wrote that Lennon...
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  • Night Fever by Norman Wexler Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night by Nik Cohn Produced by Robert Stigwood Sylvester Stallone Starring John Travolta Cynthia...
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    attended and "Pinball Wizard" was written so that New York Times journalist Nik Cohn, a pinball enthusiast, would give the album a good review. Townshend later...
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    more fully in the coming months." In his review for The New York Times, Nik Cohn considered the album "boring beyond belief" and said that over half of...
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    defined. In 1969, as the genre was still solidifying, rock journalist Nik Cohn called it a "fairly meaningless phrase that got applied to any group, no...
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  • the wind / But time is God, been back for ten years, and black again". Nik Cohn describes "Blowin' in the Wind" as "the first anti-war song ever to make...
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  • have a proper overture, while Townshend wrote "Pinball Wizard" so that Nik Cohn, a pinball fan, would give the album a favourable review in The New York...
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    Heaney, poet Seamus Deane, playwright Brian Friel, writer and music critic Nik Cohn, artist Willie Doherty, socio-political commentator and activist Eamonn...
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  • Fever – "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", New York, June 7, 1976 – Nik Cohn Shattered Glass – Vanity Fair, September 1998 – Buzz Bissinger Top Gun...
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    visionary figure in popular music. In his book Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, Nik Cohn objected: "I can't take the vision of Dylan as seer, as teenage messiah...
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