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Nick Kent
Apathy For The Devil
rough trade's book of the year 2010 now available in a smaller paperback pitched somewhere between almost famous and withnail amp 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 20something 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 to define and establish the nme as the home of serious music writing and as apprentice to lester bangs boyfriend of chrissie hynde confidant of iggy pop trusted scribe for led zeppelin and the rolling stones and early member of the sex pistols he was witness to both the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade