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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Dave Treganna, Dave Parsons, Jim Carroll and Stiv Bators, NYC, 1981 Before I write another word: a hundred thousand thanks to Sham 69 and Wanderers guitarist, Dave Parsons for not only keeping a copy of that photo above for the 27 years that have elapsed since we took it, but for sending me a very nice scan so I can share it with you. It was 1981, and Stiv Bators basically joined Sham 69...
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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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Dave Treganna, Dave Parsons, Jim Carroll and Stiv Bators, NYC, 1981He whose most well-known song was "People Who Died" has died. Poet, singer/songwriter, spokesman for a generation, Jim Carroll passed away in his home while working (writing). A heart attack took him from us on Friday, September 11, 2009. He was 60 years old.Just about a year ago, my good friend, Dave Parsons, of Sham 69 forw...
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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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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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Praying Mantis (1991)Spoken Word From The Late Poet/SingerRecorded live at St. Mark's Church, NYC. Worth owning just to hear Carroll's "Tiny Tortures" - a wicked recollection of JC's one night as a 17 year old performance artist. Jim Carroll died of a heart attack yesterday, September 13th. (@320)Fragment: Little N.Y. Ode (0:24)A Day At The Races (4:23)Times Square's Cage (2:05)A Child Growing ...
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The amazing Jim Carroll speaks of adolescence, America and a veal fillet.
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There's a whole lot more info on my MMN post about this....backstage at the Whisky a Go Go
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Punk rock and reading, two great tastes that believe it or not go together. I know that leather jackets, mohawks and three chord guitar playing doesn't exactly scream "I read french...
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Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.Carroll was a fixture of the 1970s downtown Manhattan scene, where he mixed with artists such as Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about exten...
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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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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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Well, in the end, it went the way of lot of people had expected. At half ten last night, Jim Carroll announced that the Choice Music Prize for Irish album of 2008 would be heading home with Richie Egan for Jape’s Ritual. Although many had predicted the result (including State…
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