Mercury RisingJim Carroll can’t escape rock & roll Nevermind that his most The Basketball Diaries film may have brought snippets of Jim Carroll’s The Rolling Stone Network spoke with Carroll by telephone from New York before he What was your inspiration for getting back in the music? Are you more comfortable as a singer now than back then? How is it different writing with music in front of you rather than a blank piece of In the past year William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg passed away. How did that New York has a presence in a lot of your poems. What’s your view of Mayor You wrote “8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain” right after he died. Did you feel © 1999 Rolling Stone Network
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