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...

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

freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. Rock journalist Lester Bangs, impressed with William's writing, gives him a $35 assignment to review...

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...

and stayed awake)" is an infamous interview with Lou Reed conducted by Lester Bangs and published in Creem magazine in 1975. It is now regarded as a classic...

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

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...

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...

the jazz inflections of Gallagher's guitar and his unaffected vocals. Lester Bangs dubbed it "impressive... progressive blues". All tracks composed by Rory...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

critic Lester Bangs to be the best live album ever. The biggest concert the band gave was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part of the A Bigger Bang Tour, in...

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...

journalist Lester Bangs. The group recorded nine songs which were finally released in 1986, four years after Bangs' death, on the album Birdland with Lester Bangs...

a remixed version of the song was released as a single. Rock critic Lester Bangs described the song "King's Lead Hat" as a track that emphasises "Eno's...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

"Brian Eno". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 November 2017. Bangs, Lester (November 1979). "Lester Bangs Interviews Eno". Musician. Retrieved 29 January 2017...

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...

semi-autobiographical song "Johnny B. Goode." In his Rolling Stone review, Lester Bangs hailed this as a real return to form: "The Master is back again, and...

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...

told critic Lester Bangs at the time of Desire's release. As a result of Dylan's sympathetic treatment of Gallo, critics such as Lester Bangs harshly criticized...

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...

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...

Francis S. Bangs, American lawyer John Kendrick Bangs, 19th-century writer Lester Bangs (1948–1982), American music journalist Lance Bangs (born 1972)...