Apathy for the Devil

Author: Kent, Nick

Brand: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 416

Release Date: 19-04-2011

Part Number: B00KLO629S

Details: Product Description
Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & 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 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. 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.
Review
`Not just a biography but a thriller; a high-octane chase through a decade's musical history.' --NME Magazine

`Dispensed with a bleak wit and brutal candour ... this is a book for anyone that's ever read a music magazine from cover to cover but still wanted to know more.' --Q Magazine

'Celebrity drug addict and genius wordsmith, he is a man who has lived rock'n'roll to the full.' --Dylan Jones, GQ
Book Description
Apathy for the Devil: sixteen years after his seminal rock tome The Dark Stuff, Nick Kent produces a brilliant and very personal despatch: his memoir of the 1970s.
About the Author
In 2002 Nick Kent was presented with the
NME 'God Like Genius' award for his 30-year career as a rock writer. A contributor to the
Guardian,
The Times,
Liberation,
Mojo and
GQ he is the author of the classic collection,
The
Dark Stuff which was first published in 1994. It was followed by his 1970s Memoir
, Apathy For the Devil, in 2010.

EAN: 9780571232864

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English