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The Dark Stuff Nick Kent

The Dark Stuff By Nick Kent

The Dark Stuff by Nick Kent


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Summary

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. Kent was always attracted to the darker side of rock music and that is the theme which runs through this book.

The Dark Stuff Summary

The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music, 1972-93 by Nick Kent

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.

Table of Contents

The last beach movie revisited the life of Brian Wilson; the killer in Aspic - going to hell with Jerry Lee Lewis in Hollywood; the bewildering universe of Roky Erickson and his two-headed dog; the cracked ballad of Syd Barrett; Brian Jones, tortured Narcissus; twilight in Babylon - the rolling stones after the sixties; all dressed up, got no place to go - the troubled splendour of the New York dolls; Lou Reed - the wasted years; Sid Vicious - the exploding dim-wit; horn-rims from hell - Elvis Costello; Morrissey, the majesty of Melancholia and the light that never goes out in Smiths-dom; the moon, the gutter and Shane McGowan; the daze of Guns'N'Roses; the Mancunian candidates - happy Mondays and stone roses; the four ages of a man named Pop - pictures of Iggy; lightening up with the prince of darkness - Miles Davis approaches sixty; God's Got His Plans and I've Got Mine - the last testament of Roy Orbison; Neil Young and the haphazard highway that leads to unconditional love.

Additional information

GOR001393903
9780140230468
0140230467
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music, 1972-93 by Nick Kent
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19940526
352
N/A
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