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Al Aronowitz RIP

08/03/05
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(DiS) Highly respected writer Al Aronowitz, responsible for inspiring Hunter S Thompson and a friend of Jack Kerouac, has died aged 77.

Aronowitz died of cancer yesterday morning. His 12-part series on 'beat' culture, written in 1959 for The New York Post, enabled him to befriend poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Kerouac, but it was his relationship with Bob Dylan and The Beatles, however brief, that made his name. [see full story for more] - Click here for the Full Story

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