Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines...

towards aggressive, simplistic rock songs is a trend critics such as Lester Bangs have traced to as far back as Ritchie Valens' 1958 version of the Mexican...

papers in San Diego. Impressed by William's writing, rock journalist Lester Bangs gives the boy a $35 assignment to review a Black Sabbath concert. William...

experimental work had on Reed years later. In an interview with rock journalist Lester Bangs, Reed stated that he "had also been listening to Xenakis a lot." He also...

by this point. In the essay "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage" critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically...

1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. Influential critic Lester Bangs served as the magazine's editor from 1971 to 1976. It suspended production...

reference to music critic Lester Bangs' 1970 two-part review of the Stooges' album Fun House, for Creem magazine, where Bangs quotes a friend who had said...

also said, "Well, anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am." Lester Bangs declared it "genius", though also psychologically disturbing. The album...

Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname and given name. Lester Bangs (1948–1982), American music critic Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997), American...

(1997), page 12. Turner (1993), page 145 Collis (1996), page 10. Lester Bangs. "Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks". Personal.cis.strath.ac.uk. Archived from the...

band split after one album, but Bangs' discussion of the imagined subsequent records is entirely fanciful. Bangs, Lester (ed. Greil Marcus) (1987, 2003)...

for over a year. The album was given negative reviews by many critics. Lester Bangs dismissed it in a Rolling Stone review as "discordant jams with bass...

but it was only released in 2008. In the December 1970 issue of Creem, Lester Bangs, mocking more mainstream rock musicians, ironically referred to Iggy...

Faithfull (Strange Weather), Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet and Tom Waits. Lester Bangs wrote that he was a "pivotal figure" and "the first guitarist to take...

1970s music industry. Hoffman portrayed the enthusiastic rock critic Lester Bangs, a task by which he felt burdened, but he managed to convey the real...

fan and writer, and was heavily influenced by the writings of Lester Bangs. Like Bangs, Laughner admired Lou Reed, but also drew inspiration from folk...

punk to describe itself, which the band had adopted from an article by Lester Bangs. Some of the band's earliest posters use the terms "punk music" and "punk...

as 1977 by Lester Bangs to describe punk band the Dead Boys in an article appearing in the October 24 edition of The Village Voice. Bangs describes the...

accomplish on your own." Bangs, Lester (March 1975). "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves". Creem. p. 173. Lester Bangs Gonzo journalism Lou Reed...

upon release, with the exception of supportive reviews by Billboard and Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone. Despite its lack of commercial success, it has been...

music critic Lester Bangs. Named for a 1971 article of the same title, it was edited by Greil Marcus and released in 1987, five years after Bangs' death. In...

also appeared as rock critic Lester Bangs in the one-man play How to Be a Rock Critic (based on the writings of Lester Bangs) which he co-wrote with his...

According to the book Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, renowned music critic Lester Bangs died of an accidental drug overdose while listening...

miserable, as no one understands what he is saying. The rock journalist Lester Bangs wrote in 1979 that the song "is the album's whirlpool. Possibly one of...

Ladies, Forward March", are considered minor classics. As rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in a review of the group's Super Hits album, "A song like 'Soul...

characteristics of the heavy metal genres. According to rock journalist Lester Bangs, "in England lie unskilled laborers like Black Sabbath, which was hyped...

ISBN 1-56025-249-9 Lester Bangs, "Jim Morrison: Bozo Dionysus a Decade Later" in Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, John Morthland...

DeRogatis conducted one of the last interviews with rock critic Lester Bangs, two weeks before Bangs's death of a drug overdose. Over a decade later, this encounter...

two- or three-year run but was falling from favor as the '80s began." Lester Bangs, another critical promoter of punk and new wave in the 1970s, when asked...

has inspired a number of imitators, and called him the Lester Bangs of video games. Like Bangs, Park wrote, Gastrow is an industry outsider, has created...