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Jim Carroll

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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:More citations needed Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.

Early life and educationEdit

James Dennis Carroll was born on August 1, 1949<ref name="nytimes"/> to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side. When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan.<ref name=NYer2010/>

He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers. In the fall of 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School.<ref name=NYer2010/> He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968.<ref name="Williams"/>

Carroll was a basketball star in high school, but also developed an addiction to heroin.<ref name="Williams">Template:Cite news</ref> He sometimes financed his habit through criminal behavior, including engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite news</ref> Carroll briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University.<ref name="londontimes">Template:Cite news</ref> He dated Patti Smith.<ref name="Williams"/>

CareerEdit

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Jim Carroll in New York City (2005)

Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs as influences on his artistic career.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

WritingEdit

While still in high school, Carroll published his first collection of poems, Organic Trains. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967. Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968,<ref name=NYer2010>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and Poetry the following year. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies, was published in 1973.<ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref>

In 1978, Carroll published The Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical book concerning his life as a teenager in New York City's hard drug culture. Diaries is an edited collection of the diaries he kept during his high school years; it details his sexual experiences, his high school basketball career, and his addiction to heroin.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1987, Carroll wrote a second memoir, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973, continuing his autobiography into his early adulthood in the New York City music and art scene as well as his struggle to kick his drug habit.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

After working as a musician, Carroll returned to writing full-time in the mid-1980s and began to appear regularly on the spoken-word circuit. Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1995, Canadian filmmaker John L'Ecuyer adapted "Curtis's Charm", a short story from Carroll's 1993 book Fear of Dreaming, into the film Curtis's Charm.<ref>"The romance of junkie paranoia". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 1995.</ref>

MusicEdit

In 1978, Carroll moved to California for a fresh start after overcoming his heroin addiction. After encouragement from Patti Smith, he formed the band 'Amsterdam,' a new wave/punk rock group. He and Smith once shared an apartment in New York City, along with Robert Mapplethorpe.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Amsterdam consisted of Steve Linsley on (bass), Wayne Woods on drums (he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), and Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn on (guitars). He performed a spoken word piece with the Patti Smith Group in San Diego when the support band dropped out at the last moment.Template:Citation needed

They changed their name to The Jim Carroll Band and were able to secure a recording contract with Atlantic Records with the support of the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards. Their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, was originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records. The album featured contributions from Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys.Template:Citation needed Later albums were Dry Dreams (1982) and I Write Your Name (1983), both with contributions from Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez (guitar).Template:Citation needed

Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid.Template:Citation needed Carroll raps on the Rancid song "Junkie Man", off 1995's album "...And Out Come The Wolves". The title of the album is derived from the lyric that Carroll wrote and performed while in the studio.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

"People Who Died"Edit

The Jim Carroll Band released a single, "People Who Died", from their debut album, which made it to No. 103 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The song's title was based on a poem by Ted Berrigan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

"People Who Died" has continued to be used in other media and covered by other musicians. The first known use of "People Who Died" in film or television was in Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opening the first scene with dialogue while the boys play Dungeons & Dragons. It was also used in the 1985 film Tuff Turf (which also featured a cameo appearance by the band)<ref>{{#ifeq: | yes | https://www.allmusic.com/album/r210892{{ 

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}}</ref> and in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries (based on Carroll's autobiography).Template:Citation needed It was included in 2004's Dawn of the Dead, and 2021's The Suicide Squad. It was featured in the 2015 episode "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" in Season 1 of Mr. RobotTemplate:Citation needed and in the end credits of the 2022 episode "Everything Is Bellmore" of Season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

The song was covered by John Cale for the 1995 film Antarctica and issued on Cale's Antártida soundtrack.Template:Citation needed The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp.Template:Citation needed

The song was also covered by UK rock band The Wildhearts for their 2009 ¡Chutzpah! Jnr EP, and in 2019 on a remastered, extended, re-release of their ¡Chutzpah! album. Against Me! released a version in 2018.

Personal lifeEdit

Carroll became sober in the late 1970's.<ref name="Williams"/> After moving to California, he met Rosemary Klemfuss and the two were married in 1978.<ref name="auto"/> The marriage eventually ended in divorce, but the pair remained friends.<ref name="Williams"/>

DeathEdit

Carroll died of a heart attack while working at his desk at his Manhattan home on September 11, 2009, at the age of 60. At the time of his death, he was in ill health due to pneumonia and hepatitis C.<ref name="nytimes">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Subscription required</ref><ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> His funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

BooksEdit

PoetryEdit

  • Organic Trains (1967)
  • 4 Ups and 1 Down (Angel Hair Press; 1970)
  • Living at the Movies (Penguin Books; September 24, 1973)
  • The Book of Nods (Puffin; April 1, 1986)
  • Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems (Penguin Books; November 1, 1993)
  • Void of Course: Poems 1994–1997 (Penguin Books; October 1, 1998) Template:ISBN
  • 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain (1994)

ProseEdit

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DiscographyEdit

AlbumsEdit

  • Catholic Boy (1980)
  • Live Dreams (1981)
  • Dry Dreams (1982)
  • I Write Your Name (1983)
  • A World Without Gravity: Best of The Jim Carroll Band (1993)
  • Pools of Mercury (1998)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Spoken wordEdit

  • Praying Mantis (1991) (2008 Digipak reissue)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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CollaborationsEdit

Compilations and soundtracksEdit

See alsoEdit

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