ARGONAUT BOOKS

Until his death aged 33 in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed and practically every other musician to light up the 70s and 80s. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. Reviews Bangs was one of the best writers ever to appear on newsprint ... when he died, Amer...Read More