Nineteen riotous pieces on the seamy side of rock 'n' roll from a legendary rock writer
Nick Kent has written for New Musical Express, Spin, and Details and played with the Sex Pistols and the Subterraneans. He lives in England.
Sources and Acknowledgements
vii
Foreword
xi
Iggy Pop
Preface to the U.S. Edition
xiii
The Last Beach Movie Revisited: The Life of Brain Wilson
1
(74)
The Killer in Aspic: Going to Hell With Jerry Lee Lewis in Hollywood
75
(15)
The Bewildering Universe of Roky Erickson and His Two-Headed Dog
90
(8)
The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
98
(17)
Brian Jones, Tortured Narcissus
115
(11)
Twilight in Babylon: The Rolling Stones after the Sixties
126
(29)
All Dressed Up, Got No Place to Go: The Troubled Splendour of the New York Dolls
155
(12)
Lou Reed: The Wasted Years
167
(12)
Sid Vicious -- the Exploding Dim-Wit
179
(9)
Horn-Rims from Hell: Elvis Costello
188
(14)
Morrissey, the Majesty of Melancholia and The Light That Never Goes Out in Smiths-dom
202
(10)
The Moon, the Gutter and Shane McGowan
212
(10)
The Daze of Guns`N'Roses
222
(12)
The Mancunian Candidates: Happy Mondays and Stone Roses
234
(10)
The Four Ages of a Man Named Pop: Pictures of Iggy
244
(23)
Lightening Up with the Prince of Darkness: Miles Davis Approaches Sixty
267
(18)
`God's Got His Plans and I've Got Mine': The Last Testament of Roy Orbison
285
(10)
Neil Young and the Haphazard Highway That Leads to Unconditional Love
295
(44)
Kurt Cobain 1967--1994
339
(5)
The Innocent
344
(11)
Iggy Pop
Prince Is a Champion Too
357
(6)
The Conflicted Cool of Johnny Cash
363
(9)
Eminem's Rage in a Cage
372
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