
Lester Bangs

THE LESTER LETTER

PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG

OF POP AND PIES AND FUN

KRAFTWERKFEATURE

I REMEMBER RAY

LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES

MONOLITH OR MONOTONE?

GET THE HOOK?

VISIONS OF OYSTER APOCALYPSE

Bob Dylan vs. Don Kirshner: Can You Tell the Players Without a Scorecard?

SEX AND THE ART OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL

Advice To The Linda Column

Where Do Aerosmith Get Their Guns?

Paul & Linda McCartney: BIONIC COUPLE SERVES IT YOUR WAY

INNOCENTS IN BABYLON PART 2

Creem CELIBRATES THE BICENTENNIAL!

State of the Art: Bland on Bland

EVERY MAN GOES GOLD

INNOCENTS IN BABYLON

HEAVY METAL: Brontosaurus M.O.R

Bob Dylan’s Dalliance With Mafia Chic

CHICKENHEAD COMES HOME TO ROOST

SLEEPER OF THE MONTH

A Critic’s Perspectives: THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER MADE Just In Case You Ever Wondered

JOHN DENVER IS GOD

If It’s Tuesday (or Wednesday or Thursday or...) This Must Be The Bar

APPOMATTOX REDUX

Pete Townshend’s LAST DETAIL

FACES HUDDLE FOR DEFENSIVE PLAY

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Hot Rod Rumble In The Promised Land

BARRY WHITE’S MAKEOUT TIPS

PUNCH & JUDY PLAY THE TOILETS

Steve Hunter & Dick Wagner: The Guitars That Destroyed The Stars

RICK WAKEMAN DROWNS IN SUDS!

Dandelions In Still Air: The Withering Away Of The BEATLES

SHORT TAKES

What Has 160 Teeth & Plays Soccer?

NOT INSANE. AND NOT FUNNY EITHER.

LET US NOW PPRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES

KILLER FROGS IN TRANSATLANTIC BLITZ

SHORT TAKES

Johnny Ray’s Better Whirlpool: The New Living Bowie

Getting To The Heart Of The Cracker

When In Doubt Kick Ass!

C’Mon Sugar, Let’s Go All-Nite Jukin’ With Wet Wille

Primevil Career: t=The Blue Oyster Cult

SHORT TAKES

I AM THE WORLD’S GREATEST GUITARIST

My Night Of Ecstasy With The J. Geils Band

David Bowie: Swan Dive into the Mung

ROXY MUSIC: Catch the Next Sensation

TRANSCENDENCE OF THE ORGASM

DADA AT THE END OF A FIST

BLOOD FEAST OF REDDY KILOWATT!

THE DR. HOOK STORY

NY Film Festival: There Are So Few Elite Activities Left

John Lennon: All the Dignity of Eric Burdon

Savoy Brown Is Not Dead

EAT YOUR MEAT (Cereal Division) Consumer Guide to American Burger Stands

David Bowie Flashes His Roots

Triumph of the Wretch

1973 Nervous Breakdown

Lou Reed: Brilliance You’d Hate To Get Trapped With

Party Jive You Can Live In

SCREWING THE SYSTEM WITH DICK CLARK

BOOKS

Mott: Triumph of the Dudes

Mark Farner’s State Of The Nation Address

Deaf Mute In A Telephone Booth

Slade Don’t Do No Rock Operas

Led Zep: Getting By On Blood & Iron

JETHRO TULL IN VIETNAM

Alvin Lee: The Invulnerable Bullock

“THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES”

I ONLY GET MY ROCKS OFF WHEN I’M DREAMING

Low Yo-Yo Stuff: Getting Closer to the Captain

The Shape of Jazz Today

PHAROAH SANDERS

Deep Purple Ain’t Schizoid!

JOHN COLTRANE LIVES

The Shape of Jazz Today

PHAROAH SANDERS

Loose As A Goose & Twice As Truthful

Bring Your Mother To The Gas Chamber: Part Two

He walks it like he talks it (usually)

The Macaws come home to roost

Bring Your Mother To The Gas Chamber

Anyone Tampering With This Machine

Pieties for the people

On the road to Marin County

Welcome to the Future (on 35mm Celluloid, where it belongs)

Ono, Raitt,Taylor and a pair of Lauras: Sisterhood is Powerful

Crabby Appleton Zaps the Zombies

ALICE COOPER: ALL AMERICAN

Do The Godz Speak Esperanto?

PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG

Dead Lie the Velvets Underground R.I.P.

POP AND PIES AND FUN: PART TWO

OF POP AND PIES AND FUN: PART ONE

I Remember Ray