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Nick Kent (born 24 December 1951) is a British rock critic and musician, best known for his writing for the NME in the 1970s, and his books The Dark Stuff (1994) and Apathy for the Devil (2010). Early life.
Feb 22, 2021 · Nick Kent started writing for NME in 1972, which was a good year to be a rock’n’roll writer. And no writer in Britain was more rock’n’roll than Kent, who was soon as notorious for wearing ...
Nick has written for numerous publications and lives in Paris with his partner, Laurence Romance, and their son. His autobiography, Apathy for the Devil, was published to great acclaim in 2010, and his first novel The Unstable Boys in 2021. RBP pieces on Nick's band the Subterraneans. Nick Kent on the RBP podcast. 316 articles.
Legendary NME rock journalist Nick Kent discusses his memoir of the 70s, Apathy for the Devil, which features his encounters with the Rolling Stones, Led Zep...
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Oct 23, 2011 · Spotlight On.... Nick Kent. When I think about what inspired me to become a journalist and in particular, a music journalist, the name Nick Kent springs to mind. Nick Kent was one of Britain's most notorious music journalists in the '70s. He started writing professionally at the age of 19, cutting his teeth with the underground publication Frendz.
Mar 1, 2010 · Nick Kent's 1970s autobiography is exactly what you might expect: a drug-addled odyssey through the musical underworlds of London and Los Angeles. Kent's life reads almost like an episode of 20 Feet from Stardom, fraught with encounters both sinister and sympathetic with the likes of Peter Grant, Iggy Pop, and Glenn Frey.
Jan 30, 2011 · Nick takes some credit for inspiring Hynde to pick up a guitar and form a band. He claims to mentoring Hynde, which sounds arrogant or possibly delusional until you hear Kent’s musical output. In 1975 Kent formed a band called The Subterraneans with Rat Scabies and Bryan James, who both later moved on to spearhead The Damned.
Jan 1, 1994 · Nick Kent isn't quite the UK's Lester Bangs, but these lurid, scaborous, hilarious, and highly opinionated profiles are unerringly insightful. A fine interviewer and prose stylist, Kent's pieces on Brian Wilson, New York Dolls, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, and Sid Vicious capture their subjects at their moment of ...
Aug 31, 2010 · 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 ...
