Nick Kent

Nick Kent was one of Britain's most renowned and, sometimes, notorious rock journalists in the '70s, when he was a regular contributor to New Musical Express. Kent started writing professionally in 1971, at the age of 19, starting with the underground publication Frendz. He started working for NME the following year, and certainly took the living-on-the-edge credo of the rock lifestyle seriously, to the point of flying to Michigan and visiting Creem's offices, unannounced, to ask Lester Bangs if he could teach Kent in the fine points of rock journalism. Around this time, NME r...