The ten best fictional musicians

Dorian Lynskey is a music writer for the Guardian and Observer as well as magazines including Q, GQ and Mojo. He is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs.

One of his ten best fictional musicians, as shared with Guardian readers:Richard Katz
Freedom, 2010

Literary novelists are drawn to intense, uncompromising poet-prophets whose music is just too damn pure for this