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Nick Kent (born 24 December 1951) is a British rock critic and musician. ==Career== Kent, the son of a former Abbey Road studios sound engineer, began his career as a writer at age 21 in 1972, inspired by Jack Kerouac and Hunter Thompson.〔(''The Telegraph. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent'' ) 20 February 2010〕 Kent's writing talent was evident even at college when - after analysing James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' - he was recommended to apply for Oxbridge to study English. After dropping out of two universities he started to make a name for himself as a music critic in London's underground scene. Along with writers Paul Morley, Charles Shaar Murray, Paul Rambali and Danny Baker, is widely considered one of the most important and influential UK music journalists of the 1970s. He wrote for the British music publication ''New Musical Express'', moving to ''The Face'' later in his career. Kent's writing predominantly covers the lives and music of rock-and-roll musicians. His prose is laced with images of self-destruction and compassion, exploring the reality of being an artist in the late twentieth century. Kent is the author of two books: ''The Dark Stuff'', a collection of his journalism and ''Apathy for the Devil: A 1970's Memoir'' which is an autobiographical account of his life and experiences in the 1970s, published in March 2010. In the mid-70s, Kent played guitar with an early incarnation of the Sex Pistols,〔("Interviews With NME Journalists: Nick Kent," ) ''NME'', 30 January 2012.〕 and rehearsed with the band London SS, whose members would go on to form other early British punk bands The Damned and The Clash. Kent's relationship with the punk scene was strained, however. Already a well-known music critic and a symbol of the music industry, he was assaulted by Sid Vicious with a motorcycle chain in the 100 Club. Kent relates the incident in Johnny Rogan's book on rock management, ''Starmakers & Svengalis''; in ''The Filth and the Fury'', director Julien Temple's 2000 documentary of the Sex Pistols; in ''The Dark Stuff''; in Jon Savage's book ''England's Dreaming''; and in ''Apathy for the Devil''. Kent also had bad relations with the early punk incarnation of Adam & the Ants, starting with his ''NME'' review of the soundtrack album to Derek Jarman's film ''Jubilee'' in which Kent labelled Adam Ant a Nazi sympathiser on account of the featured song "Deutscher Girls". In retaliation, Ant sarcastically name-checked Kent in the song "Press Darlings" (later a B-Side of the Ants' no. 2 UK hit single "Kings of the Wild Frontier" and on the US edition of the hit album of the same name) claiming that "If passion ends in fashion, then Nick Kent is the best dressed man in town..."〔 In addition, then-Ants guitarist Matthew Ashman assaulted and humiliated Kent with a potful of strawberry jam in the queue outside Camden's Music Machine venue.〔(FESTIVAL PREVIEWS: Nick Kent, Corn Exchange, Church Street, Brighton, May 15, By Dominic Smith, The Argus, 14th May 2010 )〕〔''History of the NME'', Pat Long, Portico Books 2012 p155〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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