Obituary: Conrad Wilson, former music critic with The Scotsman

 

Conrad Wilson, writer and music critic. Born: 7 November 1932. Died: 17 November 2017, aged 85.

By The Newsroom

Thursday, 30th November 2017

Music critic Conrad Wilson in 1978 (Picture: Denis Straughan)

Five years ago I dedicated my Saturday music column to a new book chronicling the history of the Perth Festival of the Arts. Its author was Conrad Wilson, former music critic of The Scotsman, and to accompany the article Picture Desk had sourced a seriously severe monochrome photo, taken during his earliest days with the newspaper in the 1960s, which, even by his own reckoning, was truly fearsome.

“I often wondered why people seemed reluctant to approach me,” Wilson jested the next time we met. “Did I really look so austere?”

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