Nick Kent
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Nick Kent (born December 24, 1951) is a British rock critic and musician.
Along with such writers as Paul Morley, Charles Shaar Murray and Danny Baker, Nick Kent was seen as one of the most important and influential music journalists of the 1970s. He wrote for the British music publication New Musical Express, moving to Melody Maker later in his career, and is the author of "The Dark Stuff", a collection of his journalism. He is a musician, and is sometimes associated with the early Sex Pistols; particularly one episode in which future Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and entourage member John "Jah Wobble" Wardle allegedly attacked Kent, then already a well-known music critic and ostensibly a symbol of the music industry, at an early gig. Nick Kent relates the incident in "The Filth and The Fury", Director Julian Temple's 2000 documentary of the punk rock group, the Sex Pistols.
Kent's work tried to explain from a cynical point of view the lives of rock and roll musicians who risked their sanity and health. His prose was laced with images of self-destruction and ultimate compassion, exploring the reality of being an artist in the late twentieth century.
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