Why this reviewer for Harewood's autobiography? Despite extreme dissimilarities, the two of us share utterly unrelated, central preoccupations - music and football, with football, too, being drawn into our professional lives. The difference is that whereas I - a born musician with an infantile passion for football - insist on the lack of relation to the extent of avoiding musical metaphors in my writings on football and footballing metaphors in my musical writings and teaching, Harewood actually attempts to integrate his heterogeneous passions, at least theoretically.

LRB 4 February 1982 | PDF Download