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They took their name from a Can track - it's on the Landed album.

Not being a Motorhead devotee, I wasn't aware of what Kent said about them, so I looked it up. He actually wrote "the best worst band in the world" - very different from your version. It has the same ring as George Orwell's famous "good bad books" - books that have no literary pretensions but...

Blimey, that's a bit harsh. Nick Kent was not only a full-time writer for NME, he's one of the few genuinely talented writers from the rock press. His appreciation of Nick Drake, written just after his death, is, in turn, moving and insightful - and made me want to listen to Drake. Kent was a...

There's a name I'd forgotten. I really liked Marjory Razor Blade - I thought it was an astonishing album. I saw at Sussex Uni in the mid-70s and he spent a good part of the set rambling about how Derby County had gone downhill (I think drink had been taken). He belongs to another thread of...

Yes, that was first commercial success but he attracted absolutely rave reviews for his first two albums - he certainly wasn't dismissed as shite. And BTR was before Tony Parsons joined NME. I remember him being on the front cover in autumn 1975, well before TP joined the paper. I remember...

I'd have said the exact opposite: he was hyped out of all proportion in his early days ("I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen") and there was certainly a feeling that early critics had gone over the top.