"It's a fine, authoritative piece of work that, much like NMA, doesn't stick to the rules. It feels natural, perhaps the way in which Sullivan might tell the story himself if asked to do so. Instead of trying slavishly to recreate a history it tells the tale complete with digressions, jokes, feelings, a sense of still being connected to real people's lives, and there's little if any prattling on about `the art' or the songwriting process".