These were the happy days. The salad days, as they say. —H.I. McDonnough, Raising Arizona I started working here in 1995, thanks in large part to features editor Judith Moore. She had arrived over a …
Bruce Springsteen and Lester Bangs, 1975. Lester returned to town to spend the Christmas of 1973 with Andrea, who had an apartment in El Cajon. It was a festive time, and Lester wore an expensive new sport coat and much cologne from the many Christmas gifts he got from the Creem staff. He had put on so much weight that he looked obese.
Posted July 13, 2000
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He made the front page of the Daily Californian. The paper ran a large photograph of Lester sitting on a bus bench reading a newspaper, his pile of record albums, magazines, and books beside him.