Simon Goddard's bold and expressive biography weaves time
but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death
After punk's arrival in 1976
Twenty years after its release
one that reconciles his mass popularity with his advanced musical technique
Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir blues Simon Goddard's bold and expressiveAuthor: Nick Kent Chronicling Nick Kent's up close, personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade. As a college dropout barely out of his teens, Kent's first five interviews were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, the