Apathy for the devil : a seventies memoir
"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 were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, the Stooges, and Lou Reed. But after the excitement and freedom of those early years, his story would come to mirror that of the decade itself, as he slipped into excess and ever-worsening heroin use. Apathy for the Devil is a compelling story of inspiration, success, burn out, and rebirth from a classic wordsmith"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, ©2010
1st Da Capo Press ed View all formats and editions
Da Capo Press., Cambridge, MA, ©2010
collective biographies
1 online resource (vii, 408 pages)
9780306819322, 9781282788534, 9786612788536, 0306819325, 1282788531, 6612788534
688506795
Dedication
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978-1979
Afterwards
Soundtrack for the seventies
Acknowledgements
Index
English
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