Beat Punks - Softcover

Bockris, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306809397 ISBN 13: 9780306809392

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2000

Synopsis

Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founding members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them—rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals—revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Terry Southern, Martin Amis, and Susan Sontag. Bockris's conclusion—that Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punks—is argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Bockris has written about the cultural heroes of the twentieth century for over thirty years. He is the author or co-author of major biographies on Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Review:

"Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer....He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He's always tape recording and taking pictures. I can't keep up with him." -- Andy Warhol

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0306809397
• ISBN 13: 9780306809392
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336