“A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.”

— Lester Bangs

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves" (March 1975), p. 173
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)

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American music critic and journalist 1948–1982

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