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Aaron Neville

Barney Hoskyns, Sunday Correspondent, September 1989

AARON NEVILLE has to be one of black music's more extraordinary characters. There can be few experiences as disarming as hearing the voice of an angelic choirboy float out of his fearsome heavyweight frame, which is what happens almost every time he gets behind a microphone.

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