RIP Jim CarrollIn case you hadn't heard the news, legendary punk rocker/poet Jim Carroll died on Friday of an apparent heart attack, he was 60. For more about Carroll, see CatholicBoy.comCarroll known best known for his book (and resulting film) Basketball Diaries as well as the song "People Who Died" spent years trying to rid himself of his heroin addiction. He was a legendary, yet very unknow...
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Jim Carroll, poet and musician is dead at age 60 of a heart attack. Time to go rent the Basketball Diaries. Tags: live video, obituaries, poetry, Punk, video Related posts Dogcast! Under The Dog Podcast #5 A Mixtape For Tarty Tart (3) Converge “Axe to Fall” Video (0) Municipal Waste Video “Wrong Answer” (0) [Abomination] – Rick Astley vs Nirvana (0)
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From The New York Times: Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife. As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of
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Patti Smith was visiting San Francisco in the late 70s. I was one of a tiny handful of radio djs playing her music and heralding her advent. That I had met her years before and that she probably didn't know that many people in San Francisco must have impelled her to ask me to look out for a close and somewhat fragile friend of hers who was living in Marin County, a guy named Jim Carroll. Jim ...
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MUSIC NEWS - Jim Carroll, author, poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries", died on Friday at 60 from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan. Carroll's 1978 book, in which the film version (1995) starred Leonardo DiCaprio, was about his formative years as a star player and drug user. Mr Carroll was a fixture of the growing art scene in downtown New York City in th
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Ok - friday, getting close to quitting time, and i thought i'd throw up this brilliant (and kinda strange) version of Del Shannon's "Runaway".Jim Carroll has long been one of my favorite Rock 'n' Roll poets - both his music and spoken word and his combinations of the two - and while sometimes i can get a little anxious listening to a full length, the little Runaway EP from around 2000 is just t...
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Going to bed now....but I leave you with one of THE best rock n roll songs ever composed!!
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Patti Smith was visiting San Francisco in the late 70s. I was one of a tiny handful of radio djs playing her music and heralding her advent. That I had met her years before and that she probably didn't know that many people in San Francisco must have impelled her to ask me to look out for a close and somewhat fragile friend of hers who was living in Marin County, a guy named Jim Carroll. Jim ...
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RIP Jim CarrollIn case you hadn't heard the news, legendary punk rocker/poet Jim Carroll died on Friday of an apparent heart attack, he was 60. For more about Carroll, see CatholicBoy.comCarroll known best known for his book (and resulting film) Basketball Diaries as well as the song "People Who Died" spent years trying to rid himself of his heroin addiction. He was a legendary, yet very unknow...
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The amazing Jim Carroll speaks of adolescence, America and a veal fillet.
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Ok - friday, getting close to quitting time, and i thought i'd throw up this brilliant (and kinda strange) version of Del Shannon's "Runaway".Jim Carroll has long been one of my favorite Rock 'n' Roll poets - both his music and spoken word and his combinations of the two - and while sometimes i can get a little anxious listening to a full length, the little Runaway EP from around 2000 is just t...
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