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Lester Bangs, Big Star: Great Lig in the Sky: The 1973 Rock Writers Convention

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2006

ON MEMORIAL DAY weekend in May 1973, over a hundred of the leading rock writers of the day flew into Memphis, Tennessee, for 72 hours ...

Lester Bangs: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lester Bangs and Almost Famous

Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, Spin, 3 February 2014

WHEN PHILIP Seymour Hoffman died Sunday of an apparent overdose in his Greenwich Village apartment, it was like losing Lester Bangs all over again. ...

Losin' His Mind in Detroit Rock City: Gary Graff

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, January 2002

GARY GRAFF FIRST earned his reputation in the mid-'80s as the in-house music critic for the Detroit Free Press, a stint that terminated a decade ...

Sour CREEM: The life, death, and strange resurrection of America's only rock 'n' roll magazine, Part 1

Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 16 January 2008

ALMOST FAMOUS was probably the big bang that finally pushed it over the top. Doesn't matter that director Cameron Crowe — a former CREEM and ...

CREEMed: The life, death, and strange resurrection of America's only rock 'n' roll magazine, Part 2

Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 23 January 2008

Last week, we examined the Detroit origins and early history of CREEM, "America's Only Rock 'N' roll Magazine." This week, we take a look at ...

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