Pass notes No 2,875: Nigel Kennedy

The punk bad boy of classical music is in trouble againAge: 53.Appearance: "A Liberace for the 90s", a classical-music bigwig once called him.Kennedy's a pianist? I could have sworn he plays the violin. The picture's a giveaway, isn't it? It was Kennedy's "ludicrous clothes and grotesque, self-invented accent" the BBC man was thinking of. The accent was mockney; the clothes were loose, shiny and sprinkled with jewellery. This was Not The Done Thing for a serious musician.I think my dentist's got...

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