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How to be a Rock Critic: A Megatonic Journey

Lester Bangs, Shakin' Street Gazette, 10 October 1974

LATELY I'VE NOTICED a new wrinkle on the American landscape: it seems as if there's a whole generation of kids, each one younger than the last, all of whom live, breathe and dream of but one desire: "I want to be a rock critic when I grow up!"

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