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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 and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lester Bangs has received more than 1,380,370 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lester Bangs is the 6,187th most popular writer (down from 5,742nd in 2019), the 10,643rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,681st in 2019) and the 791st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lester Bangs ranks 6,187 out of 7,302. Before him are George Woodcock, Maria Teresa Horta, Gillian Flynn, Albert Kivikas, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Kurt Marti. After him are Beryl Bainbridge, Alan Hollinghurst, Amory Lovins, Alan Garner, Dmitry Gordon, and John Barbour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Lester Bangs ranks 639. Before him are Patricia A. McKillip, Marcia Strassman, Adolfas Šleževičius, Bob Lanier, Len Wein, and T Bone Burnett. After him are Mildrette Netter, Susan Bernard, Lewis Black, Alf Hansen, Élie Doté, and Sven-Åke Lundbäck. Among people deceased in 1982, Lester Bangs ranks 285. Before him are Otto von Porat, Henri Dulieux, Wiesław Maniak, Alfons Dorfner, Humphrey Searle, and Alexander Hurd. After him are Rab Butler, Eric Brandon, Claudio Barrientos, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, William Cameron Townsend, and Katherine Rawls.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lester Bangs ranks 10,643 out of 20,380. Before him are Lesley Ashburner (1883), Stephen Vincent Benét (1898), Ward Kimball (1914), Xavier Becerra (1958), Jason Earles (1977), and Donny Osmond (1957). After him are Francis X. Bushman (1883), Thomas S. Gates Jr. (1906), Chuck Billy (1962), Justin McCarthy (1899), Joanna Going (1963), and Arthur Jensen (1923).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lester Bangs ranks 791. Before him are Anthony Doerr (1973), George Saunders (1958), David McCullough (1933), Maxine Kumin (1925), Gillian Flynn (1971), and Stephen Vincent Benét (1898). After him are Amory Lovins (1947), Mike Godwin (1956), Alain LeRoy Locke (1885), Lorraine Hansberry (1930), Glenn Greenwald (1967), and Emma Willard (1787).

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