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[Jim Derogatis] ☆ Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic Superb journalism, understated and compelling If you want to experience Lester Bangs' writing, buy one of the many rock criticism compendiums that include his reviews. If you want to know what it was like in the 70s and 80s, in the hey day of rock--and the rock criticism Bangs helped invent--buy Let It Blurt. While it may seem that. "Excellent book, well written," according to Jeffrey C. Turbitt. I really enjoyed Let It Blurt, which is about the deceased rock critic Lester Bangs. I first read ab
| Title | : | Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767905091 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Superb journalism, understated and compelling If you want to experience Lester Bangs' writing, buy one of the many rock criticism compendiums that include his reviews. If you want to know what it was like in the 70s and 80s, in the hey day of rock--and the rock criticism Bangs helped invent--buy Let It Blurt. While it may seem that. "Excellent book, well written," according to Jeffrey C. Turbitt. I really enjoyed Let It Blurt, which is about the deceased rock critic Lester Bangs. I first read about Lester when Almost Famous came out, and read this book on a beach in Thailand last year, and it has stayed with me since that time. Lester died when I was 10, so I certainly didn't fo. Lester turns madness into an artform The first thing I realised after reading this amazing biography is how much passion Lester had for what he did. Writing about music and culture became an artform because of him and he always stayed true to himself and the way he expressed himself. Would he survive today if he expressed
He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries.Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs's
Jim DeRogatis's Let It Blurt is a personal journey through the wit and the world and the ferocious spirit of Lester Bangsit reads like rock and roll."--Cameron Crowe"Let It Blurt tells one of the essential rock and roll stories with great affection and panache. Lester Bangs--paradigm, mystery, great writer, tragicomic presence--has been given the biography he deservesA splendid book."--Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn"Lester Bangs lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful body of work. Jim DeRogatis, himself a gifted writer on rock and roll, knows both of Bangs's worlds--the music and the journalism--and has written an elegy for one of the few critics whose work
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