The Dark Stuff

Nick Kent

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780571261185
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Punk Music

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Sources and Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Preface
• The Last Beach Movie Revisited: The Life of Brian Wilson
• The Killer in Aspic: Going to Hell with Jerry Lee Lewis in Hollywood
• The Bewildering Universe of Roky Erickson and His Two-headed Dog
• The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
• Brian Jones, Tortured Narcissus
• Twilight in Babylon: The Rolling Stones after the Sixties
• All Dressed Up, Got No Place to Go: The Troubled Splendour of the New York Dolls
• Lou Reed: The Wasted Years
• Sid Vicious: The Exploding Dim-Wit
• Horn-Rims from Hell: Elvis Costello
• Morrissey, the Majesty of Melancholia and the Light that Never Goes Out in Smiths-dom
• The Moon, the Gutter and Shane McGowan
• The Daze of Guns’N’Roses
• The Mancunian Candidates: Happy Mondays and Stone Roses
• The Four Ages of a Man Named Pop: Pictures of Iggy
• Lightening Up with the Prince of Darkness: Miles Davis Approaches Sixty
• ‘God’s Got His Plans and I’ve Got Mine’: The Last Testament of Roy Orbison
• Neil Young and the Haphazard Highway That Leads to Unconditional Love
• Kurt Cobain, 1967–1994
• Iggy Pop: The Innocent
• Prince Is a Champion Too
• The Conflicted Cool of Johnny Cash
• Eminem’s Rage in a Cage
• Sly Stone’s Evil Ways
• A Portrait of Serge Gainsbourg
• Phil Spector’s Long Fall from Grace
• Self-destruction in Rock and Elsewhere
• About the Author
• Copyright