Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Serpent's Tail Classics
ISBN-10
1781252777
ISBN-13
9781781252772
Edition
Main - Classic edition
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Serpent's Tail
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 4th, 2014
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Rock & Pop musicLiterary essays
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The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.
Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock ''n'' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, 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 take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, ''What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.''
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