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Bangs died in New York City on April 30, 1982, at the age of 33; he was self-medicating a bad case of the flu and accidentally overdosed on dextropropoxyphene (an opioid analgesic), diazepam (a benzodiazepine), and NyQuil.
Apr 30, 2012 · Lester Bangs died two weeks after his interview with young DeRogatis. Though he was attending AA and had cut out the drinking, he was still swallowing handfuls of Valium at a time.
Lester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three.
May 18, 2018 · After he died, when I collected and read hundreds of letters he’d written over the years, I found that this visit had been a terrible trauma and disappointment to him, something he never quite got over.
May 2, 1982 · Lester Bangs, an influential rock critic who wrote for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and scores of other magazines and newspapers, died Friday night in his Manhattan apartment. He was 33...
But most believe he was on his way to cleaning up when he died in 1982, with such moderate quantities of Darvon, Valium, and Nyquil in his body that no one is sure what killed him. He was 33 years old. I don’t remember exactly when I first read Lester Bangs. Let’s say 1972.
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Apr 30, 2010 · It was Cream that Bangs began to build his reputation as a brilliant if not confrontational music journalist. In the ensuing years, he contributed to Playboy , the Village Voice and NME . Bangs died of an accidental overdose at the age of 33.
