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At that time, he was like this kind of mother-hen figure for young journalists,” [music critic Nick] Kent says. “They’d send him their copy, and he’d give them advice.” He sums up Bangs’s approach to music as a matter of trying to divine its moral centre, or the lack of one: “When you listen to this record, what are these people trying to sell you? It’s not enough just to like the chord progression on a couple of tracks and the cowbell sound. You got to get beneath the surface: if these people turned up on your doorstep, would you invite them in? And if not, why are you listening to their music?
—“Don’t Look Back,” The Guardian on Lester Bangs, December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982
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