Journalist Lester Bangs

Who is Journalist Lester Bangs?
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs is an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician. He is known for writing for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and is known as a leader for the rock genre, as a rock music critic perhaps as a music critic. Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest rock.
Bangs died in New York City on April 30, 1982, at the age of 33, from an overdose of painkillers.

In 1969, Bangs became a freelance writer after reading an advertisement in Rolling Stone, when he was only 21 years old. His first part was published in Rolling Stone. Bangs began freelance work for Detroit Creem in 1970. In 1971, he wrote a special article for Creem Alice Cooper, and soon after. There he moved to Motor City. Named editorial Creem in 1971, Bangs fell in love with Detroit, calling it "the rock of only hope," and stayed there for five years.
During the 1970s, Bangs and several other writers at Creem began to use punk rock, referring to the genres of 60s bands.
After leaving Creem in 1976, he wrote for The Village Voice, Penthouse, Playboy, New Musical Express, and many other publications.
Bangs is also an active musician in the rock genre. In 1976, he and Peter Laughner recorded and sound in Creem offices.
In 1977, Bang recorded and sang as a solo artist single Let It Blurt/Live released in 1979.
In 1977 , at the famous New York City nightclub, after Lester talked to guitarist Mickey Leigh, he Joey Ramone the idea for a band called "Birdland" came to fruition.
In 1980 Lester Bangs traveled to Austin, Texas, and met a rock group "The Delinquents". In early May of the same year, they recorded an album called "Lester Bangs and Delinquents", rights Jook Savages on Brazos, released the following year.
In 1990 Mekons released the EP F. U.N. 90 with Bangs' rhetoric on the song "One Horse Town"
Some Lester Bangs songs and albums:

• It's not my place from the album Pleasant Dreams
• Less's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
• Lester Bang Stereo ghost from the album Dringking with the Poet
• If you take away the make - up in the album Every scene needs a center
• Our science is Tight

A collection of stories: Dori Bnags, Signifying rapers to bangs
Movies he has participated in :

• All you need is love
• The story of popular music
• Almost famous

His father died in a fire when he was young.

Who is Girl friend/ wife/ darling Journalist Lester Bangs?
He was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the popular film Almost Famous.

How tall is Journalist Lester Bangs? What Lester Bangs's weight?
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When was Journalist Lester Bangs born?
Lester Bangs was born in 14-12-1948, death year is , at the age of 76.
Where is Journalist Lester Bangs's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Lester Bangs was born in Escondido, California- United States. Mr working and living in New York City, New York- United States. Mr, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Lester Bangs's global rank is 90323 and whose rank is 546 in list of famous Journalist. Population of US in 1948 is about 146,631,302 persons.

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Lester Bang photo in 1975