from newcity chicago's list of 50 local literary lights...also includes studs terkel, roger ebert and jeff tweedy
34. Jim DeRogatis
The Sun-Times music scribe or, DeRo, as he's commonly known in the music world, had his greatest literary hit so far with "Let it Blurt," his biography of rock critic extraordinaire Lester Bangs. He's also published his musings on the alternative music scene and psychedelic rock--this month marks the release of the most recent collection he's edited, "Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Consider the Classics," which includes a takedown of Bob Marley by Newcity's Dave Chamberlain. **Word has it DeRo's also shopping around a memoir of his life in music.**
― ryan adams, Friday, 4 June 2004 09:53 (twenty years ago) link