"A mighty tome containing some of the best music journalism ever written." — SpectatorIn the cut-throat marketplace of rock 'n' roll music-making, there are two classes of people: the superstars and the slaves, the living legends and the lowly burn-outs. In The Dark Stuff, Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted but often extremely self-destructive talents, from Brian Wilson to Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis to Keith Richa...

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....

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...