Victor Bockris
The author of acclaimed books on Lou Reed, Keith Richards and Patti Smith, as well as of the bestselling Uptight (about the Velvet Underground), Bockris lives and works in New York City.
15 articles
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Interview by Victor Bockris, Carryout, 15 August 1972
VICTOR BOCKRIS: Would you consider yourself to be the greatest poet in New York City? ...
Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television: Victor Bockris goes to the Airport with Robert Mapplethorpe
Interview by Victor Bockris, New York Rocker, December 1976
SATURDAY OCTOBER 16th 2P.M. Robert Mapplethorpe is going to California on a T.W.A. flight. I am arriving at his fifth floor Bond Street studio loft ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards: Heroin, old age, rhythm and blues
Interview by Victor Bockris, High Times, February 1978
KEITH RICHARD has been the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist for the last 15 years and one of rock's leading crusaders and criminals. His most recent ...
William Burroughs, Mick Jagger: Table talk
Report by Victor Bockris, Tatler, 1980
Victor Bockris fails to entertain Jagger, Warhol and Burroughs ...
Blondie: Dinner With Blondie... and William Burroughs
Interview by Victor Bockris, New Music News, 24 May 1980
2010 NOTE: I taped this dinner party for William Burroughs, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein for my book With William Burroughs: A Report from the ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvets Hit Hollywood
Book Excerpt by Victor Bockris, Gerard Malanga, Omnibus Books, 1983
An extract from Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris & Gerard Malanga, first published by Omnibus Press in 1983. (Currently available as a ...
Keith Richards: Wingless and Angelic: Keith Richards in Jamaica
Book Excerpt by Victor Bockris, Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography, 1992
An extract from Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography by Victor Bockris, first published in 1992. (Currently available as a paperback published by Omnibus Press, 426pp, ...
Richard Hell: Victor Bockris presents Susan Sontag & Richard Hell, New York City, 1978
Interview by Victor Bockris, The Poetry Project, February 1995
IT WAS THE EVENING of the fifteen-foot snow blizzard and SUSAN SONTAG was due at my Greenwich Village apartment from her 107th Street penthouse at ...
Blondie, Debbie Harry: The HT Interview: Debbie Harry
Interview by Victor Bockris, High Times, October 1996
(RBP Editor's note — the original article in High Times was printed missing a section. Victor Bockris provided us with material which, in part, filled ...
The Doors, John Lennon, Elvis Presley: What Killed Albert Goldman? A literary X-file
Retrospective by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, July 1999
In the 1980s, Albert Goldman became the most famous and despised biographer in the world because of his biographies of Elvis Presley (Elvis, McGraw Hill, ...
Retrospective by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, January 2000
BEFORE THE New Journalism of Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, before the absurd cinema of Stanley Kubrick, before the Brave Gonzo World of Hunter S. ...
Essay by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, May 2000
Somebody once asked who Andy Warhol reminded me of. My answer, Muhammad Ali, tickled the artist so much that he used the statement in a ...
Visions of the Seventies: The Rise And Fall of a Cultural Challenge
Retrospective by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, January 2001
The 1970s were America's low tide. Not since the Depression had the country been so wracked with woe. Never—not even during the Depression—had America's pride ...
David Amram, Jack Kerouac: David Amram's Beat Memories
Retrospective and Interview by Victor Bockris, High Times, December 2003
David Amram is an American treasure. A multi-instrumentalist who can play in all styles, he's composed classical concertos and symphonies, accompanied poets on spoken-word records, ...
The Velvet Underground: Heart Of Darkness: The Velvet Underground
Retrospective by Victor Bockris, MOJO, March 2004
The Velvets biographer on Lou Reed, love songs and the band's harrowing third album. ...
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