Jim Carroll Band People Who Died 7" 45 VG+ VERY RARE PROMO Patti Smith
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Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries’, Dies at 60
By William Grimes Sept. 14, 2009 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 Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan.
“I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation,” the singer Patti Smith said in a telephone interview on Sunday. “The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty.”
The diaries began, innocently: “Today was my first Biddy League game and my first day in any organized basketball league. I’m enthused about life due to this exciting event.”
By the end of the book, Mr. Carroll was a heroin addict who supported his habit by hustling in Times Square. “Totally zonked, and all the dope scraped or sniffed clean from the tiny cellophane bags,” the final entry read, continuing, “I can see the Cloisters with its million in medieval art out the bedroom window. I got to go in and puke. I just want to be pure.”
“The Basketball Diaries,” reissued in a mass-market edition in 1980, became enormously popular, especially on college campuses. In a film adaptation in 1995, Leonardo DiCaprio played the part of Mr. Carroll.
The writer’s good looks and flair for drama made him ideal raw material for rock stardom. “When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it,” he told the poet Ted Berrigan in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, with the encouragement of Ms. Smith, he formed the Jim Carroll Band, whose first release, “Catholic Boy” (1980), is sometimes called the last great punk album.
The Jim Carroll Band ?– People Who Died
Label: CBS ?– CBS A1034 Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, PromoCountry: UK Released: 1980 Genre: Rock Style: New Wave, Punk
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A People Who Died Written-By – J. Carroll* 5:07 B I Want The Angel Written-By – B. Linsley*, J. Carroll* 2:52Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – ATCO Records
- Published By – Earl McGrath Music
- Published By – Jim Carroll Music
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- Producer – Earl McGrath
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Taken from the LP The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic BoyBarcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout: A Side (etched): CBS-S-A1034-A1
- Matrix / Runout: B Side (etched): CBS-S-A1034-B1
- Label Code: LC 0149
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