Lee Ranaldo
co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active on the New York music and art scene for the past thirty-five years. His new LP Electric Trim will be released in September 2017 on Mute Records.
JOHN GIORNO AT EIGHTY
By Lee RanaldoI celebrate John’s life and work, now in his 80th year! I knew about John from his long relationships with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, among others, but mostly I knew of him as the guy behind the Dial-A-Poem phone service that began in the mid-sixties, presented initially at venues like The Museum of Modern Art in 1970.
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