Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs Groundswell Speaker 2024 PenguinISBN: 9780241990155Extent: 640 pages

PenguinISBN: 9780241990155Extent: 640 pages

are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst

'Genuinely revealing

The only catch is that once you're in there

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs Groundswell Speaker 2024 PenguinISBN: 9780241990155Extent: 640 pagesUntil 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