Nick Kent

selected writings on rock music

The dark stuff

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

Selected Writings On Rock Music

The Dark Stuff

Includes the discography, `Soundtrack for the Seventies'. --Book Jacket.

A Seventies Memoir

Apathy for the Devil

Iggy Pop

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

Selected Writings On Rock Music Updated Edition

A 1970s rock journalist chronicles his descent into, as well as redemption from, heroin abuse, as well as his often harrowing adventures and interviews with the Rolling Stone, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, the Grateful Dead, the Stooges, Lou Reed and many more. Original.

In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable in the world of today's market driven music business.

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.

A Novel

The Unstable Boys

Nel mondo estremamente competitivo del rock ci sono due tipologie di persone: le superstar e gli schiavi, le leggende viventi e quelli che si consumano lentamente. In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent, il più celebre giornalista britannico, delinea i profili di 22 tra i talenti più dotati e al contempo votati all’autodistruzione, da Brian Wilson a Miles Davis, da Jerry Lee Lewis a Keith Richards, da Syd Barrett a Kurt Cobain. Allargando i confini del new journalism, Kent – che suonò la chitarra nei Sex Pistols nel 1975 e fu poi il frontman dei Subterraneans – va in tour con i musicisti, ascolta le loro confessioni intime, ne cattura la decadenza e i pensieri turbolenti con una capacità di analisi rara nel mondo del rock multimilionario. Ma anziché celebrare lo stile di vita “sesso, droga e rock’n’roll” dei suoi soggetti – che lui stesso ha in gran parte condiviso – l’autore lo disseziona con chirurgica precisione e uno sguardo critico penetrante. Pubblicato originariamente nel 1994, The Dark Stuff è stato aggiornato e arricchito con capitoli su Eminem, Johnny Cash, Prince e Iggy Pop.

Scritti sul rock

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

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