Victor Bockris

Over a career spanning more than half a century Bockris has interviewed and written about icons stretching from the Beat Generation to the 1970s Punk scene. He’s written biographies of Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Muhammad Ali, John Cale, William S. Burroughs and Bebe Buel among others. He’s written portraits of bands including Blondie, the Velvet Underground, the Ramones to name a few.

A CITY OF ROOMS

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

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