Nik Cohn
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Nik Cohn (also written Nick Cohn) is a British rock journalist.
Established as the father of rock critics, with Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom written at the age of 22 in the late 60s, he then has published articles, novels and music books regularly.
When reviewing a rough mix of The Who's rock opera Tommy, he told the group members that the album was less than spectacular. Knowing that Cohn was a fan of pinball, Pete Townshend suggested that the album's deaf, dumb, and blind title character could also be an exceptional pinball player. Cohn opinion of the album immediately improved, and Townshend subsequently wrote "Pinball Wizard" to be added to the album.
He wrote the 1975 New York Magazine article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which was the source material for the movie Saturday Night Fever. In the late 1990s, Cohn admitted that he had fabricated the story.
He is now a columnist for the Guardian.
He is the son of historian Norman Cohn.
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