Lester Bangs

Until his death at the age of thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, and 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...