Marcus Berkmann

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Like Nelson Eddy, Devon Malcolm and the composer Havergal Brian, the critic Greil Marcus has one of those names that is all the more memorable for being obviously the wrong way round.

  • Listening to Van Morrison

    by Greil Marcus

    Faber, pp. 195

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