1960's High School annual with great photographs and text showing the students and faculty, activities and sports, candids and graphics, pictures of school and surrounding, and local advertisement. And including musical graduating senior and future seminal rock n roll writer Lester Bangs who was the school's speech champion this year, is pictured in clubs, and is in one of the school plays. Great photos and vintage design.
Lester Bangs was an American author, critic and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, and was known for his leading influence in rock and roll journalism, and has been called "America's greatest rock critic."Bangs became a freelance writer in 1969, after reading an ad in Rolling Stone soliciting readers' reviews. Bangs began freelancing for Detroit-based Creem in 1970. In 1971, he wrote a feature for Creem on Alice Cooper, and soon afterward he moved to Detroit and was later named. He fell in love with Detroit, calling it "rock's only hope", and remained there for five years. During the early 1970s, Bangs at Creem began using the term punk rock to designate the genre of 1960s garage bands and more contemporary acts, such as MC5 and Iggy Pop and the Stooges. His writings would provide some of the conceptual framework for the later punk and new wave movements that emerged in New York, London, and elsewhere later in the decade. Bangs was enamored of Lou Reed, and Creem gave significant exposure to artists such as Reed, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Captain Beefheart, Blondie, Brian Eno, and the New York Dolls years earlier than the mainstream press. Bangs wrote the essay/interview "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves" about Reed in 1975. Creem was also gave early sizable coverage to hard rock and metal artists such as Motorhead, Kiss, Judas Pries, and Van Halen. Bangs recorded an album called Let It Blurt which was produced by John Cale, and recorded an album as "Lester Bangs and the Delinquents", entitled Jook Savages on the Brazos. Bangs early years are documented in the film Box Full of Rocks. And he is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the movie Almost Famous. He died at age 35.
Very Good condition hardback with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces, with mild shelf wear. Solid.
Great rarity giving a great look at the early life and times of one of the great rock n roll performers.
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“Someone I deeply love was committed to a hospital mental ward and almost the bigtime cuckoo's nest last year; I went barging out there like some halfassed Sir Lancelot, she eventually got herself out, but when I walked into that place I saw the most graphic evidence of what society can do to people, and just how totalitarian this supposedly free society can get when some administrator arbitrarily decides that you're not quite fit to mingle with the rest of the herd. What I saw in there was a whole bunch of people who as far as I was concerned were not crazy at all. Well, there was one guy who though George Benson was sending him telepathic messages, but then that guy used to get raped by his uncles every day when he was about four years old while his father just sat there and cried. What I'm saying is that what I saw in there was a whole bunch of people who were just frightened literally out of their wits, and with good reason. There are some people who are like dogs who have just been beaten and beaten and beaten until it really seems kind of awesome that there's anything left at all. ¶ Meanwhile the staff treated them with a mixture of contempt, condescension, and bored patience.”
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