Thursday 6 August 2020

LEGENDARY JOURNALIST PETE HAMILL DEAD AT 85

 

Pete Hamill, the Brooklyn-born bard of the five boroughs and eloquent voice of his beloved hometown as both newspaper columnist and best-selling author, died Wednesday morning. Hamill, who worked at five New York newspapers and outlived three, was 85.

 

His 1975 piece on John Lennon in Rolling Stone is significant, conducted just post-"Lost Weekend," 

Read ...  Here.  

This story appeared in the June 5, 1975 issue of Rolling Stone.

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