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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

DeRogatis, Jim

Paperback

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresMusicians

ISBN10: 0767905091
ISBN13: 9780767905091
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: Apr 18 2000
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries.

Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs's fascinating (if often tawdry and unappetizing) life story, as well as a window on rock criticism and rock culture in their most turbulent and creative years. It includes a never-before-published piece by Bangs, the hilarious How to Be a Rock Critic, in which he reveals the secrets of his dubious, freeloading trade.

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