Train In The Night

How do you lose music? Then having lost it what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. The Train in the Night is an account of one mans struggle to recover from the loss of his greatest passion in life - and to go one step further than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about and feel music. Of all our relationships with art the one we enjoy with music is the most complex the most mysterious and for reasons that cannot be explained by science alone the most emotionally charged. Nothing about that relationship is simple. And yet it is perhaps through music that we make the most intimate contact with our sense of who we really are at our most naked unsophisticated honest and
simplified. Through psalms symphonies love songs ballads boogie...Where to start though for the newly deaf? Well you can start suggested a famous neurologist by trying to remember every beautiful piece of music youve ever heard and then by thinking about that music over and over again until it begins to assume a new kind of form in your brain. You never know what might happen after that. And so thats what the author did. He went back to the origins of his passion - the series of big bangs which kicked off his musical universe - and then worked his way forwards through the back catalogue. The Train in the Night is a memoir not quite like any other. It is about growing up obviously. But it is also about becoming young again and trying to see the world for what it is whether through the eyes
of a teenage punk or those of a middle-aged music critic and father of two. It is about taste and love and suffering and delusion. It is about longing to be Keith Richards. It is funny heartbreaking and above all true. It is a hymn to music.