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Any music fan worth his or her salt needs to read Lester Bangs. Thats because unlike most rock? critics, Bangs was first and foremost a fan. And a passionate, music is my whole life? kind of fan at that. Objectivity was not in his vocabulary and politeness can fuck off because Bangs told it like it was. Crude, rude, and unapologetic.

(Originally printed in Creem, 1976) - Now, as any faithful reader of this magazine is probably aware, David Bowie has never been my hero. I always thought all that Ziggy Stardust homo-from-Adelbaran business was a crock of…