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Post by stu77 on Sept 20, 2020 17:44:35 GMT
Just re-reading bits of this.
It'd make a good film , albeit a bleak one.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 20, 2020 18:25:56 GMT
A great book Stu
Must reread it
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 18:40:51 GMT
I read this a couple of years ago and it seems to me that he was a legend in his own lifetime.
He bizarrely claims to have-in a roundabout way-to have 'started punk'with his early association with Cook and Jones.
An ok read but like all music journalists a huge ego with a bombastic narrative.
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Post by personunknown on Sept 20, 2020 19:16:52 GMT
Simplistic style but incredibly engaging. His Dark Stuff book is also a great read. The chapter on Sid Vicious (The Exploding Dimwit) may have been catharsis for Sid's bicycle chain attack on him but even with Kent's subjective slight, you see what a nasty piece of work Vicious could be.
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Post by stu77 on Sept 21, 2020 16:46:27 GMT
A couple of things I'd forgotten about
Lydon was a major acid freak
McLaren very briefly tried to be Pistols singer
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Post by minx on Sept 22, 2020 7:08:34 GMT
It's a great book, I really enjoyed it.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 22, 2020 7:20:17 GMT
It's a great book, I really enjoyed it. Minx! Welcome aboard I hope all is fine and dandy |
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Post by minx on Sept 22, 2020 13:26:56 GMT
Thank you!
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Post by AndoII on Oct 5, 2020 4:35:41 GMT
I read it a while ago. Kent comes over as a Keith Richards hanger-on / impersonator, right down to the heroin habit he had in his youth and heyday as the then NME's star journo. Decent writer, though. His "Dark Stuff" tome is pretty good. -Lots of salacious tales involving, but not limited to: Brian Wilson, Guns' N' Roses, Roky Erickson, The New York Dolls, Sid Vicious, Jerry Lee Lewis, Miles Davis, The Pogues, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, The Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Kurt Cobain, etc. Puts the boot into Vicious especially. Quelle surprise.  |
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Post by stu77 on Oct 5, 2020 14:34:51 GMT
He's brilliant, an incredibly perceptive writer.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 9, 2021 21:53:08 GMT
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Post by personunknown on Jan 10, 2021 8:45:41 GMT
Sounds very interesting indeed though at £17, I'll wait for the paperback.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 10, 2021 12:46:29 GMT
Sounds very interesting indeed though at £17, I'll wait for the paperback. Kindle is less than a tenner on Amazon |
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Post by stu77 on Feb 6, 2021 3:35:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2021 8:21:25 GMT
He was right about Lydon but he should have had the guts to name him.
As for Shane MacGowan. It's pathetic to end up in that state. Lesson to be learnt there kids before you crack open that can. Think of Shane in his wheelchair.😀
However, Kent comes across as a self important egotist.
Maybe Sid had a point🤔
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