Rock journalism on: Brian Wilson, Guns'N'Roses, Roky Erickson, The New York Dolls, Sid Vicious, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Miles Davis, The Pogues, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, The Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Kurt Cobain

The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings On Rock Music

Arts & Photography

Kent, Nick

Music

Da Capo Press

A smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain. "Kent matters because he wrote about rock better than anyone before or since." -Tony Parsons, The Daily Telegraph

The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music

Biographies & Memoirs

Pop, Iggy

Arts & Literature

DaCapo Press

Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade.
As a college dropout barely out of his teens, Kent's first five interviews were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, the Stooges, and Lou Reed. But after the excitement and freedom of those early years, his story would come to mirror that of the decade itself, as he slipped into excess and ever-worsening heroin use. Apathy for the Devil is a compelling story of inspiration, success, burn out, and rebirth from a classic wordsmith.

Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir

This collection of Nick Kent's writing over the last 20 years forms a companion volume to Charles Shaar Murray's "Shots From the Hip". Nick Kent was always the star of British rock journalism, wasted and addictive but capable of writing like a dark angel. He was always attracted to the darker side of rock music and that is the theme which runs through this book. Some call it "The Dispatches of Rock 'n' roll". Others, Nick Kent's big book of losers - Lou Reed, Sid Vicious, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, Brian Jones and others.

DARK STUFF

Faber&Faber

Chronicling Nick Kent’s up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade.As a college dropout barely out of his teens, Kent’s first five interviews were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, the Stooges, and Lou Reed. But after the excitement and freedom of those early years, his story would come to mirror that of the decade itself, as he slipped into excess and ever-worsening heroin use. Apathy for the Devil is a compelling story of inspiration, success, burn out, and rebirth from a classic wordsmith.

Apathy for the Devil: a 1970's Memoir

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-02-01 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Faber &amp; Faber Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail &amp; I. Apathy for the Devil is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration. success and serious burn out.As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kents first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5. Captain Beefheart. The Grateful Dead. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Along with Charles Shaar Murray and Ian MacDonald he would go on to define and establish the NME as the home of serious music writing. And as apprentice to Lester Bangs. boyfriend of Chrissie Hynde. confidant of Iggy Pop. trusted scribe for Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. and early member of the Sex Pistols. he was witness to both the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade.

Apathy for the Devil

The Unstable Boys: A Novel

London 1968: The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They don't know they're about to be obliterated by a series of tragedies and a chaotic breakup that puts paid to the band's starry-eyed dreams of stratospheric success. One day you're the dog's bollocks; the next day you're a nobody - fame is a fickle friend. London 2016: Bestselling crime writer Michael Martindale has reached breaking point. Estranged from his wife and children following the very public fallout of his disastrous affair, he is alone, with only his self-pity to keep him warm at night. Until he makes the mistake of publicly declaring his admiration for his teenage musical obsession, the Unstable Boys. When the band's twisted and feral frontman, the Boy, turns up on his doorstep, Martindale quickly learns that sometimes you should be careful what you wish for. Razor-sharp and laced with a caustic wit, The Unstable Boys is a dark comic caper with an unmistakeable musicality from legendary music journalist Nick Kent.

Business & Money

Constable

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

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The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings On Rock Music

The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music

Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir

DARK STUFF

Apathy for the Devil: a 1970's Memoir

Apathy for the Devil

The Unstable Boys: A Novel

The Unstable Boys: A Novel