* 1948 – Lester Bangs, Rock critic ( d. 1982 )

Bomp remained a fanzine, featuring many writers who would later become prominent music journalists, including Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Ken Barnes, Ed Ward, Dave Marsh, Mike Saunders and R. Meltzer.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

" Musically the group is intentionally crude and aggressively raw ," wrote critic Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone:

In the December 1970 issue of Creem, Lester Bangs, mocking more mainstream rock musicians, ironically referred to Iggy Pop as " that Stooge punk ".

" Lester Bangs described Oi!

In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and highly personal styles, Guralnick's writing is characterized by a colloquial approach that is clean and understated by comparison.

In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O ' Rourke.

* Lester Bangs

Well-known critic Lester Bangs went so far as to say that Roxy represented " the triumph of artifice ".

** Lester Bangs, American music journalist ( d. 1982 )

* April 30 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist ( b. 1948 )

Lester Bangs cited Beefheart as " one of the four or five unqualified geniuses to rise from the hothouses of American music in the Sixties ", while John Harris of The Guardian praised the music's " pulses with energy and ideas, the strange way the spluttering instruments meld together ".

Lester Bangs wrote in 1982, " Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics.

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* Lester Bangs ' review of the album for Creem

* Legendary music journalist Lester Bangs was one of the first writers to champion the Stooges in a national forum, with his piece " Of Pop and Pies and Fun " for Creem Magazine which was published around the time of Funhouse.

As a result the paper's coverage changed radically from an uncritical and rather reverential showbiz-oriented paper to something intended to be smarter, hipper, more cynical and funnier than any mainstream British music paper had previously been ( an approach influenced mainly by writers such as Tom Wolfe and Lester Bangs ).

* April 30-Influential rock journalist Lester Bangs dies in his New York apartment of an apparent accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

They were the first band to use the term punk to describe themselves, which they had adopted from an article by Lester Bangs.

* Lester Bangs, American music journalist

" Rolling Stone reviewer Lester Bangs was more critical of the album, however, saying that " What's really interesting is not that such narcissistic slop should get recorded, but what must be going on in the minds of the people who support it in such amazing numbers.

Rolling Stones critics Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs jointly reviewed it and concluded: " Moondance is an album of musical invention and lyrical confidence ; the strong moods of " Into the Mystic " and the fine, epic brilliance of " Caravan " will carry it past many good records we'll forget in the next few years.

In a review upon the album's release, Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone complimented its " heavy Sly influence " and funk riffs, but noted a lack of originality in songwriting, writing that the songs lack " Sly's sense of derision and irony.

Some of the magazine's influences included Joan Didion, Thomas Paine, William Blake, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Greil Marcus.

Publishers, Editors and writers for Creem included Connie Kramer, Lester Bangs, formative early editor Dave Marsh, Billy Altman, Bob Fleck, John Morthland, Ben Edmonds, Ed Ward, Richard Riegel, Ric Siegel, Robert Christgau, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Jeffrey Morgan, Richard C. Walls, Rob Tyner, Patti Smith, Peter Laughner, Cameron Crowe, Linda Barber, Charlie Auringer, Judy Adams, Jaan Uhelszki, Penny Valentine, Susan Whitall, John " The Mad " Peck, Robot A.

Bomp featured many writers who would later become prominent, including Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Richard Meltzer, and Ken Barnes.

" was an early publishing venue for many subsequently well-known writers, including Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

She also appeared as Philia in the national tour of " Forum ," starring Jerry Lester ( Pseudolus ), with Paul Hartman ( Senex ), Erik Rhodes ( Marcus Lycus ), Arnold Stang ( Hysterium ) and Edward Everett Horton ( Erronius ), produced by Martin Tahse.

Marcus Fenix is voiced by John DiMaggio ; General RAAM and many Locust creatures are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker ; and Augustus " Cole Train " Cole is voiced by Lester " The Mighty Rasta " Speight.

The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s ; her father had been killed in World War I and her mother had died of tuberculosis.

His mid-1970s collaborations with one of his influences, Les Paul, Chester & Lester and Guitar Monsters, had already reflected that interest ; Chester & Lester was one of the best-selling recordings of Atkins's career.

Lester del Rey, an influential editor ( who had in fact been published in Ellison's first Dangerous Visions anthology ), led a conscious effort to re-assert genre traditions in the 1970s and early 1980s.

He had brought around a silent cartoon " and asked Lester if his P. A.

It was introduced by the government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, and it established a mandatory retirement age of 75 for all members who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

Lester's re-examination of his life parallels feelings Ball had in his mid-30s ; like Lester, Ball put aside his passions to work in jobs he hated for people he did not respect.

In the script that was sent to prospective actors and directors, Lester and Angela had sex ; by the time of shooting, Ball had rewritten the scene to the final version.

Ball later said his anger when writing the first draft had blinded him to the idea that Lester needed to refuse sex with Angela to complete his emotional journey — to achieve redemption.

Spacey and Bening worked to create a sense of the love that Lester and Carolyn once had for one another ; for example, the scene in which Lester almost seduces Carolyn after the pair argue over Lester's buying a car was originally " strictly contentious ".

Lester Bird, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, had said:

In the 1990s, Dalyell asked the Lord Advocate, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, to grant diplomatic immunity to Lester Coleman, a coauthor of Trail of the Octopus, so that he could give evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial in Scotland ; the Federal Government of the United States had indictments against Coleman, accusing him of passport fraud and perjury.

A young hostage, Julie ( Heather Wahlquist ), has a broken arm, and she and her boyfriend Mitch ( Shawn Hatosy ) claim that a car crash caused it, but due to some holes in their story John and another hostage, Lester ( Eddie Griffin ), are able to conclude that the two are lying and that Mitch had actually beat Julie up.

The Roseland School District serves public school students in Pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade at Lester C. Noecker Elementary School, which had an enrollment of 506 students ( as of the 2009-10 school year ).

They had two children, Gene ( Lester Jr .), born in 1941 and named after actor-songwriter Gene Lockhart, and Russell ( Rusty ), born 1944, before divorcing in 1949.

Webb's final show of the 1910s, the musical Listen Lester, had the longest run, 272 performances.

Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers, as his grandparents had been.

Quinn began searching for a replacement editor: writer Lester del Rey turned down the job ( a decision he is reported to have later regretted ) but Quinn was able to engage Larry T. Shaw, an active science fiction fan who had sold a few stories.