The Dark Stuff, by Nick Kent, Republished

A classic of rock journalism has been updated with Johnny Cash, Phil Spector and Sly Stone making their way into its pages of infamy. Kent has assembled some of rock'n'roll's freakiest stories, be it Syd Barrett rubbing Mandrax tranquilizers and Bryll cream into his hair or up-close- and-personal encounters with the Rolling Stones, these profiles pull the mask off rock stardom to offer up portraits of altered states.