Over the last four or five years he has writ ten criticism for the newspaper columns "Black Disc" and "Observations on Music." In fact the pop music he has written about is even broader than the book implies, since he has been serving as the equivalent of a gatekeeper, immediately providing needed assessments of the new products continually being put out by the record companies.
四、五年來他陸續在「黑色唱盤」、「觀歌集」等報紙專欄發表評論，所關心的流行音樂其實更寬廣，等於擔任了一位稱職的把門人，對唱片公司隨時推出的新作立刻做了應有的評析。