The Lonely Planet Boy by Barney Hoskyns # 5 Black Sabbath

 

        'On the flight to New York Kip drank a bloody Mary and felt a kind of wild elation.'

A first trip to the Big Apple. A sure sign that a European band is 'making it.'Mina has sacked her band and taken up with a new one; The Sacred Monsters of Desire. You get another Kip review, this time a live one of them playing at a venie called The Ritz. Hoskyns naturally is a dab hand at these. Then the Sacred Monsters move off into the heartlands.

Before they do so Kip goes up to Mina's room and talks to her with a further article in mind while she shoots up on her bed. There's a desparation and disolution about these scenes but she looks great at the photoshoot at the scrapyard round the corner from the hotel half an hour later. She stands on the roof of a burnt out chevrolet. Kip writes it all up for an 'On The Road' article for the magazine he writes for. He starts rabbitting on about Plato's Republic in it  Those were the days.