PUNK, NEW WAVE & INDIE. As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's 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.
Focusing on the lives of twenty-two iconic yet troubled rock musicians, this edition of Nick Kent's work delves into their extraordinary talents and self-destructive behaviors. As part of the Faber Greatest Hits series, it highlights the evolution of music writing in the twenty-first century, offering a compelling exploration of the intersection between creativity and chaos in the rock genre.
This work by the rock critic Nick Kent, profiles Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain and more.
The Unstable Boys is the first novel from legendary rock critic Nick Kent.
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.