Liz Thompson, writing for the The Arts Desk, in an article published on January 15, 2018. and entitled "Nick Coleman: Voices – How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life, highlighting Coleman's deafness then exploring the songs that linger in his memory.

Just as the producer's job is to achieve the best recording possible – the kind of perfection that so grabs listeners like Nick Coleman- so the editor should push the writer beyond the bounds of what he thinks he can achieve. It's hard to escape the feeling that there's a better book here waiting to get out. Essentially, this is a memoir consisting of 10 essays each of which attempting to examine a fairly arbitrary category of music. “Boys and Girls and Girl Groups”; “Vulnerability”; “The Spectacle of Anguish” etc. The opener looks at “The Horsemen in the Box” - Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley – who he feels would have represented the end of pop music history had the Cuban Missile Crisis not turned out so well.

— Liz Thompson

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About Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.