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Rocker, 'Basketball Diaries' Author Jim Carroll Dies at 60


Source: Spinner
September 13, 2009
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Rocker, 'Basketball Diaries' Author Jim Carroll Dies at 60 im Carroll, an icon of the underground for his memoir, 'The Basketball Diaries,' died Friday, Sept. 11, in his New York City apartment of a heart attack, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times. He was 60.

Carroll also enjoyed success as the frontman for the band that sported his name, with the touching punk rock ode, 'People Who Died,' a furiously paced list of his fallen comrades, enjoying alternative radio success in the early '80s.... RSS Share it

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