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Lester Bangs

1948 - 1982

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Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, and was a leading influence in rock music criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lester Bangs has received more than 1,275,056 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lester Bangs is the 5,763rd most popular writer (down from 5,237th in 2019), the 10,704th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,208th in 2019) and the 802nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 40.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lester Bangs ranks 5,763 out of 5,755. Before him are Michel Faber, Christopher Moore, Dominique Bona, Kiera Cass, Kari Hotakainen, and David Gerrold. After him are Bano Qudsia, Dejan Ajdačić, Joyce Cary, Anderson Cooper, Paul Scott, and Dan Houser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Lester Bangs ranks 598. Before him are Gerrit Graham, Ted Lange, Tom Scott, Oinikhol Bobonazarova, Viktor Krovopuskov, and Bob Lanier. After him are Eliud Williams, Richard Tandy, Pedro Morenés, Rubén Glaria, Sue Monk Kidd, and David Davis. Among people deceased in 1982, Lester Bangs ranks 254. Before him are Henri Dulieux, Humphrey Searle, Philip Hall, Virginia Fox, William Cameron Townsend, and Rab Butler. After him are Francisco Gamborena, Hugh Marlowe, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, John Cody, Jimmy Dickinson, and Tom Tully.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lester Bangs ranks 10,704 out of 18,182. Before him are Curtis Armstrong (1953), Zebulon Pike (1779), Helen Wagner (1918), Bob Lanier (1948), David Gerrold (1944), and Kitty Carlisle (1910). After him are Jessica Meir (1977), Wendy Schaal (1954), Julie Bishop (1914), Nathaniel P. Banks (1816), Barbara Barrie (1931), and Macdonald Carey (1913).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lester Bangs ranks 802. Before him are Robert Cormier (1925), Andrew Sarris (1928), Thomas Beatie (1974), Christopher Moore (1957), Kiera Cass (1981), and David Gerrold (1944). After him are Anderson Cooper (1967), Paul Klebnikov (1963), Richard A. Knaak (1961), Linda Woolverton (1952), Daniel Handler (1970), and Sue Monk Kidd (1948).

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