Beat Punks

by Bockris, Victor

• ISBN13: 9780306809392
• ISBN10: 0306809397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

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 themrockers, rebels, artists, and intellectualsrevealed 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 conclusionthat Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punksis argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(4)
The Death Of Allen Ginsberg	13	(8)
Rosebud Feliu-Pettet
National Arts Club Literary Award Dinner For Allen Ginsberg	21	(8)
Muhammad Ali On The Art Of Personality	29	(4)
Allen Ginsberg On Heroes	33	(16)
An Interview With Debbie Harry	49	(14)
An Interview With Marianne Faithfull	63	(10)
Susan Sontag: The Dark Lady Of Pop Philosophy	73	(16)
The Captain's Cocktail Party: Dinner With Jagger, Warhol and Burroughs	89	(16)
An Interview With Keith Richards	105	(16)
An Interview With Our Greatest Satirist: Terry Southern	121	(10)
I Would Have Been A Soldier: An Interview With Nicolas Roeg	131	(18)
Blondie On The Bowery	149	(10)
Debbie Harry
Chris Stein
Victor Bockris
An Interview With Debbie Harry	159	(12)
Blondie Meets Burroughs	171	(10)
Burroughs On Punk Rock	181	(4)
My Burroughs	185	(6)
Richard Hell
Susan Sontag Meets Richard Hell	191	(16)
Notes Of A Punk Rock Groupie	207	(6)
Joey Ramone: A Literary Relationship	213	(6)
Andy Warhol The Writer	219	(10)
An Interview With Martin Amis	229	(10)
Berlin Rocks	239	(24)
Christopher Isherwood Meets William Burroughs	263	(16)
Robert Mapplethorpe Takes Off	279