In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable in the world of today's market driven music business.

London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They don't know they're about to be obliterated by a series of tragedies and a chaotic breakup that puts paid to the band's starry-eyed dreams of stratospheric success. One day you're the dog's bollocks; the next day you're a nobody - fame is a fickle friend.Lond...

Il ne faudrait jamais rencontrer ses idoles.Londres, 1968. Toute la ville en parle : les Unstable Boys sont destinés à jouer dans la cour des grands. C'est imminent, ils vont cartonner à l'égal des Beatles et des Rolling Stones. Comment pourraient-ils deviner qu'une série de tragédies va bientôt mettre un terme à leurs rêves de succès planétaire ?Londres, 2016. L'auteur de romans policiers à succès Michael Martindale est à bout. Sa femme l'a quitté en embarqu...

Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, Apathy for the Devil is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success and serious burn out.As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, The Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Along with Charles Shaar Murray and Ian MacDonald he would go on...

The New Music Journalism is legendary music journalist Nick Kent's memoir of 1973 and 1974, two years that saw him go from aspiring, suburban scribe to celebrity journalist and companion to the likes of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. From hanging out with Lester Bangs in the States to dating Chrissie Hynde, Kent recalls an astonishing cast of seventies figures. But as his fame grew, so did his dependency upon narcotics, and these two years recount also the manic highs and st...

Nel mondo estremamente competitivo del rock ci sono due tipologie di persone: le superstar e gli schiavi, le leggende viventi e quelli che si consumano lentamente. In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent, il più celebre giornalista britannico, delinea i profili di 22 tra i talenti più dotati e al contempo votati all’autodistruzione, da Brian Wilson a Miles Davis, da Jerry Lee Lewis a Keith Richards, da Syd Barrett a Kurt Cobain. Allargando i confini del new journalism, Kent – che suonò la chitarra nei...

Sedici anni dopo la raccolta di scritti "The Dark Stuff," Nick Kent torna a raccontare gli anni Settanta, l'era dorata del rock. Ma questa volta lo fa in prima persona, spalancando i suoi ricordi personali su quegli anni belli e difficili, eccitanti e turbolenti. Lui era lì, almostfamous, a dividere slanci ed eccessi con i Rolling Stones e i Sex Pistols, Lou Reed e Iggy Pop, Captain Beefheart e gli MC5, e ancora con i Led Zeppelin e David Bowie e Chrissie Hynde. Come Lester Bangs, solo che...

Get THREE THRILLERS – FREE > ow.ly/t6L4RThe Abba-like cleanness of Stockholm was getting to him. He wanted to piss against a wall.With plenty of drugs, sex and rock and roll; The Ice Boat is a modern rock and roll odyssey.Dave has almost got it all; with a rock star lifestyle, romance and a nice flat in London, he almost has the happiness he has worked for all his life. But his reluctance to compromise in love takes him away from Lo...

Continues the story of the Kent & East Sussex Railway, covering its expansion, challenges, and achievements from 1974 to the 21st century.Over thirty years ago Nick Pallant told the story of the struggle to save one of Britain's best loved heritage railways in Holding the Line – Preserving the Kent & East Sussex Railway (Alan Sutton Publishing). That book concluded its detailed coverage with the partial reopening of the K&ESR in 1974. This new account continues the...

The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually returned to England. He immediately volunteered to return and established and ran a resistance group around Lille and the Pas de Calais for a year. As the Nazis closed in, he refused to leave the Fre...

Excavations at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, Kent, undertaken in 2004/5 uncovered a dense area of archaeological remains including Bronze Age barrows and enclosures, and a large prehistoric mortuary feature, as well as a small early 6th to late 7th century Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery. An extraordinary series of human and animal remains were recovered from the Late Bronze Age–Middle Iron Age mortuary feature, revealing a wealth of evidence for mortuary rites including exposure, excarnation a...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashio...