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Nick Kent is a former NME writer and author of books on rock music. He played guitar with the Sex Pistols and Adam and the Ants, and dated Chrissie Hynde.
Aug 31, 2010 · Clean since the late 80s, married and raising a family in France, Kent is now releasing Apathy for the Devil: A 70s Memoir(Da Capo Press), in which he finally turns his trenchant eye...
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Things weren’t looking good for NME when Kent first slouched through its doors in ‘72. Sales were so bad that the editors had been given just 12 issues to save the magazine. They hired Kent and other new writers such as Charles Shaar Murray and Ian MacDonald from the alternative press. The magazine then saw a huge jump in sales – but not for the re...
Kent went to extremes on the page and off it, where he found that the road of excess led not to the palace of wisdom but to a debilitating heroin addiction. His best work included an epic feature about the tortured genius ofBrian Wilson, which ran to 10,000 words and was published across three issues of NME. He was also granted unprecedented access...
Kent first met punk impresarioMalcolm McLaren in December 1973, when he went to France to interview the New York Dolls and found McLaren among their entourage. The pair became close and regularly dined together – along with their partners, Vivienne Westwood and Hynde – at what the writer describes “the only Indian restaurant in Clapham South”. When...
Kent’s new novelThe Unstable Boyscentres around the titular band’s grotesque, narcissistic frontman, known as ‘The Boy’. Given his abrasive personality traits, it’s no surprise that The Boy idolises Donald Trump – and Kent says he noticed plenty of parallels between the former President and some of the more self-absorbed rock stars he’s encountered...
In The Unstable Boys, things take a turn for the worse when ‘The Boy’ turns up at the home of a wealthy crime writer who also happens to be his band’s biggest fan. Kent says he was inspired by a real tale involving the British rock’n’roller Vince Taylor, who sang the 1959 hit ‘Brand New Cadillac’. “He was one of the best early British rock singers ...
Nick Kent is a legendary NME scribe who wrote about Syd Barrett, Lou Reed and the Sex Pistols. He also played guitar for the band for a while and published his first novel The Unstable Boys in 2021.
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Nick Kent is a legendary music journalist and author who wrote for NME and other publications in the 1970s. Explore his archive of articles on rock stars, bands and festivals, from Alice Cooper to Ziggy Stardust.
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Feb 2, 2021 · The veteran – some might say infamous – rock journalist and author Nick Kent is not an easy man to get a hold of.
Jan 9, 2021 · Nick Kent is a former NME journalist who revived British music writing in the 70s. He talks to Sean O'Hagan about his first novel, a caustic tale of rock megalomania.
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