Simon Evans was the rock and pop correspondent of The Birmingham Post for eight years before taking up the post of music editor and books editor for Choice magazine.

In between singing in a local choir and standing for the local council he devotes his spare time to a never to be finished novel, a half-finished critical study of Paul Simon and bringing up his nine-year-old son.

He holds to the old-fashioned view that the music The Beatles and Bob Dylan produced in the Sixties has never been surpassed, nor is it likely to be.