`Fascinating' --Waterstone's Books Quarterly'an intelligent and open-minded work' --Word "impressively engaging...it will be the rare music lover that does not come away without having learned meant interesting things" --Guardian, February 2010 "wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current nonfiction writers" --Sunday Times, February 2010 "publishing would be a far better place if popular science books were all as truly scientific in spirit as this" --The Independent, February 2010A remarkable achievement --Classic FM Magazine