I recently finished reading the book 'Apathy For The Devil, A 1970's Memoir' wrote by Nick Kent published in 2010.
Nick Kent was a writer/journalist for the British magazine NME (New Musical Express) in the 70's. And this his memoir from that time, or at least what he recalls from it.
He tells his stories of hanging with the Rolling Stones,Led Zeppelin and many others, until he became a substance abuser (coke and heroin) being his down fall.
Nick writes about each year in chronological order, of course starting in 1970 up to 1979. Half way through the 70's he was a full blown addict and living on the streets or couch surfing.
At one time he was invited to play in the Sex Pistols which didn't last long as he was kicked out of the band, he also dated Chrissy Hynde before she got famous with her band The Pretenders. I wasn't all that impressed with Nick's writing and found he always wanted to be the centre of attention, but I guess if it is your memoir, you should be. But he just comes across as very arrogant and annoying. All and all, I didn't much care for this book.
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