In 1948 Allen Ginsberg wrote Jack Kerouac “Don’t you see we both suffer. That’s really the basis of our friendship.” The Beats brought suffering to the surface. In the 1970s we were a people defined and united by our pain. The more you suffered the cooler you were, like those kids in high school who […]
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At the end of 1977I flew to London to join the Ramones for their New Year’s Eve Concert at the Rainbow Theatre. I had not been to London since 1974. When the Ramones and their manager, Danny Fields, invited me to join them at the Marble Arch Holiday Inn and review their New Year’s Eve
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Sweet Maryjane how she rambles and rains/ down from the rooftops dropping her pain/ she looks like a photograph/ she looks like a photograph/ she looks like a photograph again BACK IN 1977 when all the headbanging began for me, New York was a city of rooms: The Factory, the Bunker, The Punk Dump, Mickey
