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Yves Lavigne (2000). Hell's Angels: Taking Care of Business. Random House of Canada, Limited. ISBN 978-0-7704-2858-7.
As we sit on a bench surrounded by ancient woodland and revving engines, the 66-year-old tells me he rode with Hells Angels England from 1969-73. I ask him what kind of things he got up to. “Well, at one stage I was stealing motorcycles,” he says, before describing how a manufacturing glitch meant the then-new Norton Commandos were particularly easy targets for entrepreneurial hoodlums. But the glint in his eye tells me this might not be the worst thing he got up to with the Angels. Yves Lavigne (2011). Hell's Angels at War. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-1-4434-0410-5. In 1975, Wenner assigned Thompson to travel to Vietnam to cover what appeared to be the end of the Vietnam War. Thompson arrived in Saigon just as South Vietnam was collapsing and as other journalists were leaving the country. Wenner allegedly canceled Thompson's medical insurance, which strained Thompson's relationship with Rolling Stone. [53] He soon fled the country and refused to file his report until the ten-year anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. [53] Wenner, writing in 2022, denied the claims that he cancelled Thompson's insurance, saying that Thompson spent most of his time in Saigon obsessing over evacuation plans. Thompson filed an unfinished dispatch that Wenner described "strong and promising, but nothing substantial." He then took a commercial flight to Bangkok where he met his wife for what Wenner described as a few weeks of "totally undeserved rest and recreation." While in Thailand, Thompson had a custom brass door plaque made that read "Rolling Stone: Global Affairs Suite. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" marked with a map of the world and two lightning bolts. "That was it," Wenner wrote. "No story. Just that plaque." [45] Thompson later finished the story in time for the 10-year anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. [53]
Thompson's treatment of a gang-rape by Hell's Angels was criticized by feminist Susan Brownmiller in her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. [11] Editions [ edit ] HA-veteran døde i mc-ulykke". adressa.no. May 15, 2002. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
A number of critics have commented that as he grew older, the line that distinguished Thompson from his literary self became increasingly blurred. [77] [78] [79] Thompson admitted during a 1978 BBC interview that he sometimes felt pressured to live up to the fictional self that he had created, adding, "I'm never sure which one people expect me to be. Very often, they conflict— most often, as a matter of fact.... I'm leading a normal life and right alongside me there is this myth, and it is growing and mushrooming and getting more and more warped. When I get invited to, say, speak at universities, I'm not sure if they are inviting Duke or Thompson. I'm not sure who to be." [80]
Thompson is often credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of writing that blurs distinctions between fiction and nonfiction. His work and style are considered to be a major part of the New Journalism literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which attempted to break free from the purely objective style of mainstream reportage of the time. Thompson almost always wrote in the first person, while extensively using his own experiences and emotions to color "the story" he was trying to follow. Detenidos tres ángeles del infierno en Marbella en una operación internacional contra el tráfico de drogas". October 10, 2021. Archived from the original on March 7, 2023 . Retrieved February 21, 2022. a b T., Marlene. "Transcript of Hunter S. Thompson Interview". The Book Report. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012 . Retrieved August 3, 2012. Thompson spent the next year preparing for the new book in close quarters with the Hells Angels, in particular the San Francisco and Oakland chapters of the club and their president Ralph "Sonny" Barger. Thompson was upfront with the Angels about his role as a journalist, a dangerous move given their marked distrust of reporters from what the club considered to be bad press. Thompson was introduced to the gang by Birney Jarvis, a former club member and then police-beat reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. This introduction, coming from an Angel and reporter, allowed Thompson to get close to the gang in a way others had not been able. [ citation needed] Thompson's residence during the Hell's Angels period at 318 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco
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