Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)—the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better—more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sou...