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Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) [1] was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician.
Lester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three. He was fat, sweaty, unkempt—an out-of-control alcoholic in torn jeans...
May 18, 2018 · Lester Bangs’s story is often told as a celebrity in the rock ‘n roll scene (his presence at parties, bars, concerts), but also as a lonely man. Where is the truth? I knew Lester as a lonely person, and I never knew him as a party person.
Lester Bangs, who died in 1982, is the most celebrated of the original "Noise Boys" of rock journalism. Some of his greatest pieces — most of them from Detroit's Creem magazine — were collected by Greil Marcus in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung.
Jan 9, 2018 · The critic Lester Bangs, one of the form’s chief architects, wrote ravenous, intimate screeds that were predicated, always, on the quixotic but beautiful idea that music can save your life.
Aug 29, 2003 · A profile of Lester Bangs, the late and nearly sainted rock critic who forged a career of passionate excess and skepticism. Read his reviews of Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, and more.
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Lester Bangs was the great gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock writing- its Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac all rolled into one.
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