How to Listen to Pop Music

Nick Bollinger traces his personal voyage through pop music. An illuminating guide to pop music for the curious uninitiated, this book will also provoke and stimulate fans and fanatics. Nick Bollinger, one of New Zealand's leading rock journalists, is also a musician who has played in bands from Rough Justice and the Pelicans to Wellington's iconic Windy City Strugglers. In How to Listen to Pop Music he traces his personal voyage through pop music, from childhood encounters with Beatlemania and the Sunset Show to today's wildly fragmented music scene. An illuminating guide to pop music for the curious uninitiated, this book will also provoke and stimulate fans and fanatics. First published 2004. Nick Bollinger is a columnist on pop music in the New Zealand Listener and presents The Sampler, reviewing new releases on National Radio.