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Bookmark or Share- Perfect Sound Forever: Lester Bangs- Last interviewLester Bangs was the great gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock writing- its Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac all rolled into one.
- Lester Bangs at 75: legacy of 'America’s Greatest Rock Critic' endures ...By George Varga. Dec. 9, 2023 6:57 PM PT. Oscar-winning film director Cameron Crowe was just 15 when he met fellow San Diego native Lester Bangs here in 1973, but he remembers the encounter...
- Still Learning from Lester Bangs | The New YorkerLester Bangs and the Soul of Rock Criticism. “How to Be a Rock Critic,” a new one-man play starring and co-written by Erik Jensen, explores Lester Bangs’s life, work, and death....
- Lester Bangs: Truth-teller | The New YorkerLester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three. He also had the most advanced and exquisite taste…
- Lester Bangs - WikipediaLeslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest rock critic".
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