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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (1 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0767905091
  • ISBN-13: 978-0767905091
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 954,657 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Finally, the great American writer gets the book he deserves. Jim DeRogatis's Let It Blurt is a personal journey through the wit and the world and the ferocious spirit of Lester Bangs...it reads like rock and roll."
--Cameron Crowe
"Let It Blurt tells one of the essential rock and roll stories with great affection and panache. Lester Bangs--paradigm, mystery, great writer, tragicomic presence--has been given the biography he deserves...A splendid book."
--Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn
"Lester Bangs lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful body of work. Jim DeRogatis, himself a gifted writer on rock and roll, knows both of Bangs's worlds--the music and the journalism--and has written an elegy for one of the few critics whose work is worth reading for itself, apart from its subjects."
--Roger Ebert
"To those who knew him, Lester Bangs was a force of nature, 'larger than life' and all such biz. For a mere book to capture the full sweep of his mind/body at speed and at rest may be too tall an order, but Let It Blurt is a welcome stab indeed at the whole Lester thing."
--Richard Meltzer


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Traces the life of visionary rock critic Lester Bangs from his childhood in Southern California to his untimely death at the age of thirty-three, describing his place in the turbulent rock music culture of the 1970s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Biography and history of rock criticism, 15 April 2004
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This engaging biography of Lester Bangs captures the essence of the legendary rock writer with great clarity. DeRogatis writes with passion by making Lester's passionate sense of life come alive, unlocking great swathes of rock culture and rock literature that I had not been aware of. It emerges that Bangs was a kind and likeable person with lots of integrity.

The book details his personal life but also serves as a history of rock criticism. The afterword covers his legacy in the work of music writers, in the lyrics of other artists, in his musical influence on certain alt-country bands, and in the book Psychotic Reactions, a compilation of his work by Greil Marcus.

The appendices include Lester's How To Be A Rock Critic: A Megatonic Journey and some of his lyrics. Let It Blurt provides copious notes, sources and a wonderful bibliography of Bangs' articles, reviews, books, contributions to anthologies and encyclopaedias, letters and recordings, plus articles about him by other authors.

The text is well illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of Bangs, other rock journalists and artists like Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen. Let It Blurt is a classic, both as a fascinating life story and history of rock writing, and is a valuable reference source to the work of this seminal author.

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