Overview
This hilarious anthology of portraits, essays, and reviews serves to rescue the work of America's most famous rock critic: Lester Bangs. Texts chosen by the American music journalist Greil Marcus. Lester Bangs passionately believed in the redeeming and transforming force of rock music, claiming it as the most vital and innovative of the popular arts while also discussing his idols: John Lennon, Lou Reed, John Coltrane, Iggy Pop, The Clash, and David Bowie. Bangs forged in a short time a compulsively eccentric, personal and unmistakably wild style that would leave an indelible mark on rock historiography.Author Biography
Lester Bangs trained as a critic working for Rolling Stone magazine, under the orders of the all-powerful Jan Wenner, who discharged his services for his iconoclastic savagery. He moved to Detroit where he served as editor of Creem magazine, before moving to New York and immersing himself in the emerging punk scene of the moment, collaborating with several newspapers and with the literary supplement of the defunct Village Voice. 
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