[kj] Jim Carroll, punk rock poet, dead

[Jim Harper]

I only know 'People Who Died', but it's one hell of a tune. RIP.
 
Jim.

--- On Mon, 14/9/09, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [kj] Jim Carroll, punk rock poet, dead
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Monday, 14 September, 2009, 4:05 AM


Well, someone had to post this unfortunate news here first :((


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September 14, 2009

Jim Carroll, 60, Poet and Punk Rocker, Dies
By WILLIAM GRIMES

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.


[...]


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1

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