The Dark Stuff
Selected Writings on Rock Music, 1972-93
Published on 26. May 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-14-023046-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
287 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-023046-8 (9780140230468)
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Content
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.