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Apathy for the Devil - Nick Kent

Apathy for the Devil

eBook | 4 March 2010

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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.

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While it adds some backstory to his classic interviews, it's also a "my-drug-hell" tale dispensed with a bleak wit and brutal candour. Sometimes the anecdotes seem too good to be true. ... Full of fabulous rock tittle-tattle but also some uncomfortable home truths, this is a book for anyone that's ever read a music magazine from cover to cover but still wanted to know more.

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