Falstaff vs Smokey Robinson: turning sixty during lockdown

Nick Coleman is newly 60, and an author who used to be a music critic at Time Out and the Independent.

Nick Coleman is newly 60, and an author who used to be a music critic at Time Out and the Independent.  I turned sixty in April, at a relatively early stage of the coronavirus lockdown. The day dawned for me, as it does nearly every morning, with the sound of a north-east-London blackbird giving it some in the tree outside our bedroom window. It was fou…