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Leslie 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".
Lester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three. He was fat, sweaty, unkempt—an out-of-control alcoholic in torn jeans...
Jan 9, 2018 · The critic Lester Bangs, one of the form’s chief architects, wrote ravenous, intimate screeds that were predicated, always, on the quixotic but beautiful idea that music can save your life.
Lester Bangs, who died in 1982, is the most celebrated of the original "Noise Boys" of rock journalism. Some of his greatest pieces — most of them from Detroit's Creem magazine — were collected by Greil Marcus in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung.
Aug 29, 2003 · A profile of Lester Bangs, the late and nearly sainted rock critic who forged a career of passionate excess and skepticism. Read his reviews of Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, and more.
Jun 12, 2017 · Almost no one hated progressive rock as much, or as memorably, as Lester Bangs, the dyspeptic critic who saw himself as a rock-and-roll warrior, doing battle against the forces of fussiness and...
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Aug 3, 2020 · A new documentary traces the rise and fall of the irreverent, boundary-smashing music publication where Lester Bangs did some of his most famous work.
