by Greil Marcus (Introduction), Lester Bangs (Author), Greil Marcus (Introduction), Lester Bangs (Author)
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. 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. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, 'What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.'
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: Main - Classic edition
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 04 Dec 2014
ISBN 10: 1781252777
ISBN 13: 9781781252772
Book Overview: The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic