Editor's note: This is part two of a two-part piece. Part one ran on Friday, April 25, 2014.

In her new book, There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll, Vanity Fair contributing editor and music writer Lisa Robinson keeps some of the world’s most stimulating company as she chronicles the lives of sex-crazed frontmen and their drug-fueled nights. To help you navigate this dizzying universe of luxury hotel rooms and private jets, we’ve compiled a two-part, A-to-Z primer with quotes from Robinson’s witty, all-access memoir.

Read Part one, A to M, here, and read on for N to Z.

“In 1976, I was traveling to London on a regular basis to do interviews with Rod Stewart or Pete Townshend or Peter Gabriel or Freddie Mercury for my Inside Track syndicated radio show … It was on one such trip, in December, that I saw Rupert Murdoch boarding my Pan Am morning flight. He had just bought the New York Post.”

“With the exception of those who actually lived there, it was a place musicians went to play, get high, have sex, and make records. And so, it was to this Los Angeles that Yoko Ono banished John in September 1973, when they were having a rough time in their marriage.”

“But while many people justifiably felt Michael [Jackson] — and unfortunately, Madonna — were the artists of the 1980s, to me, no one was more talented or important during that decade than Prince.”

“I wasn’t really a fan of Queen’s music, but I loved Freddie [Mercury] ... One night in 1984, after Freddie and I had done an interview for Radio 1990, he invited me to a party at his New York apartment at 425 East 58 Street. I arrived with Fran Lebowitz, we walked in, and immediately saw that we were the only women in a roomful of young gay men — all of whom were watching slides of their Provincetown vacations.”

“According to Lionel Richie, who was in the Commodores and opened the Jackson Five’s debut tour, ‘What I learned most on that tour, was whatever you do, if you sing, dance, juggle, whatever it is, you do it in the first song. Because they may not stick around for the second one. This little kid [Michael] did everything in the first song.'”

“At that time, New York City was still affordable for misfits who came from somewhere else: Lou Reed from Long Island. Debbie Harry and Patti Smith from New Jersey. Tom Verlaine (né Miller) from Delaware. The Ramones from Queens. They were drawn to Manhattan to get famous, don’t think not. But it really was for the music; the music was the scene.”

“Talking Heads singer David Byrne likened the tour to a vacation, saying, ‘Everything is so scenic.’ The Ramones were not enthusiastic. ‘Nobody talks English,’ Johnny [Ramone] told me. ‘It’s not like America. I miss home. We can’t get lasagna or ravioli, and I miss milk. All the milk here has stuff floating on top of it.’”

“Bono talked — and talked — about music and the band’s new album, 'The Unforgettable Fire.' How he was still ‘hungry’ and ‘thirsty’ for U2’s music. He said he felt U2 was a soul band, and that soul music wasn’t a case of black or white. Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison were soul singers, he said. Soul was a decision to ‘reveal rather than conceal.’”

“Michael couldn’t have chosen two crazier guitarists to work with than Eddie Van Halen and Slash. When I first met Eddie in 1982, he wouldn’t do interviews; he left that to his lead singer, the occasionally amusing blabbermouth David Lee Roth. Because Eddie refused to do interviews, he was the one I wanted to talk to.”

“On September 3, 2005, on NBC-TV’s live telethon to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, Kanye West stared into the camera and with a stunned Mike Myers standing by his side, said, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ Before that, Kanye had said, ‘I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, they’re looting. See a white family — they’re looking for food.'”

"Years later, Keith and I discussed Cocksucker Blues, the Robert Frank-directed, unreleased, grainy black-and-white X-rated 'documentary' of the Stones' 1972 tour. It showed Keith shooting up in a hotel room and groupies engaging in sexual activities on the band's plane."

“In the 1960s, the Rolling Stones were considered ‘dangerous’; they were overtly sexual, they had urinated in public at a gas station, and were portrayed by the press as filthy louts … But the Rolling Stones were never a threat to the U.S. government. Mick Jagger, when in New York City, lived on the Upper East Side with his ‘socialite’ wife Bianca and went to parties with the Ahmet Erteguns. A political ‘artist’ was Neil Young singing ‘Four dead in Ohio’ about Kent State.”

“We’d only been in London about a week when David Bowie phoned to invite us all to his house for his birthday dinner. I asked him to please not have any Scotch on hand, as Lou [Reed] was decidedly more fun without it. When we arrived, David greeted us at the door with a brand-new look: the black-and-gray jumpsuit, red patent leather boots and the short spikey orange hair. Ergo: Ziggy Stardust. I burst out laughing.”