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Oct 27, 2013 · In a brutal 1973 profile of Reed in the influential UK magazine Let It Rock, Bangs encountered the “Walk on the Wild Side” singer in the cocktail lounge of a Holiday Inn while on tour ...
- Rosen Remembers Lou Reed, a Pop Star for Adults
When the world first heard Lou Reed, on the Velvet...
- John Sellers
Lou Reed vs. Lester Bangs: A Retrospective Their prickly...
- Rosen Remembers Lou Reed, a Pop Star for Adults
Jun 27, 2024 · This was the other most literate misanthrope of the 1970s, rock critic Lester Bangs. While Reed had many adversaries, there was none as powerful as the moustachioed Californian menace, a man who questioned some of the era’s most notable acts before revisionism had become cool.
After fortifying himself with research and drugs, Lester Bangs meets Lou Reed in a hotel room, where they trade barbed personal insults, and argue about the current music scene, amphetamine formulae, and the background music which Lou has selected (Herbie Hancock).
Bangs was enamored of the noise music of Lou Reed, and Creem gave exposure to artists such as Reed, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Captain Beefheart, Blondie, Brian Eno, and the New York Dolls years earlier than the mainstream press.
Nov 3, 2013 · In Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous, Philip Seymour Hoffman steals a scene playing the infamous rock critic Lester Bangs and warns a 15-year-old journalist not to befriend to the musicians. And the real Bangs knew that all too well.
Lester Bangs finds a post-Velvet Underground Lou Reed at CBGB’s. He’s hostile, aggressive and emblematic of the general mean spirited sarcasm he became increasingly associated with.
1975 also saw Reed’s infamous battles with Lester Bangs, printed here in the NME. “Lou Reed is a completely depraved pervert and pathetic death dwarf – a wasted talent living off the dumbbell nihilism of a ’70s generation that doesn’t have the energy to commit suicide,” wrote Lester about the man he says is his hero in the same ...
