Quotes By Lester Bangs | Hotel California is a very, very good album”—have they? Lester Bangs died two weeks after his interview with young DeRogatis. He’d already made history. Lester and archivist Michael Ochs had just finished work on Rock Gomorrah, their version of Hollywood Babylon, when Lester died. Now you can praise such unfinished sketches to the skies if you want. He also wrote for magazines, such as, ‘Playboy’, ‘New Musical Express’ and ‘Penthouse’. In 1975, he published an essay on his idol, Lou Reed, entitled ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves’, which put him in the spotlight as a humorous and satirical writer. 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Bangs died in New York City on April 30, 1982, at the age of 33, of an accidental overdose of dextropropoxyphene (an opioid analgesic), diazepam (a benzodiazepine), and NyQuil. He’s also withstood the people who heard him back in the 1960s, didn’t like him then, and don’t think any better of him now. Lester's cause of death was overdose. Not only did this publication document the articles and essays of this famous music critic from the start of his career, but it also provides an insight into his own personal life, the life of his idol, ‘Lou Reed’ and is regarded his magnum opus. Sandelin hopes the Lester Bangs’ Birthday Bash becomes an annual affair. 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In 1981, he teamed up with Mickey Leigh and their only album together was released in 1986, four years after his death. To put this in perspective, if Dylan had died in his 1966 motorcycle accident, we would have “only” Blonde on Blonde, Bringing It All Back Home, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, plus a slew of other excellent songs. Since Bangs died before his work could be completed, it’s left for us to write articles knocking Bob Dylan down a peg or two. Consequently, when “LA Woman” comes on, out of nowhere, at some diner where you happen to be grabbing lunch, it sounds fantastic. In our current era, when rock criticism (and pop criticism more generally) has been elevated by Web 2.0 reviews to the status of a national pastime, canonical rock critics are something close to the rock gods they once savaged or deified. 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