Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung Paperback / softback
by Lester Bangs
Part of the Serpent's Tail Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/12/2014
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- ISBN:9781781252772
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/12/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781252772
