Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung

Before his death aged 33 in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, passionate pieces on Barry White, Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Lou ‘I always wanted to emulate the most self-destructive bastard I could see, as long as he moved with some sense of style. Thus Lou Reed’. To his journalism, he brought the talent of a great fiction writer. As Greil Marcus writes in his ‘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’.