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Jim Carroll

January 01, 1970

For other people with the same name, see Jim Carroll (disambiguation).

James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009)[1] 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.

Jim Carroll
In Seattle, 2000
BornJames Dennis Carroll
(1949-08-01)August 1, 1949
New York City, U.S.
DiedSeptember 11, 2009(2009-09-11) (aged 60)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, poet, musician
Period1967–2009
Notable workThe Basketball Diaries
Spouse
Rosemary Klemfuss
​
​
(m. 1978, divorced)​
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsAtlantic Records

Early life edit

Carroll was born 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.[2] He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School.[2] He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968.[3]

Carroll was a basketball star in high school, but also developed an addiction to heroin.[3] He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan.[4] Carroll briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University.[5] He dated Patti Smith.[3]

Career edit

 
Jim Carroll in New York City (2005)

Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler,[6] Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs as influences on his artistic career.[7]

Writing edit

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,[2] 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.[8]

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.[4][9][10]

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.[11]

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.[12]

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.[13]

Music edit

In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since overcoming his heroin addiction, Carroll formed Amsterdam, a new wave/punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City, along with Robert Mapplethorpe.[14] The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums - he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (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.[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. They released a single, "People Who Died", taken from their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records. The single would make it to No. 103 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[15][16] The album featured contributions from Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys.[citation needed] The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp.[citation needed] The song's title was based on a poem by Ted Berrigan.[17] Later albums were Dry Dreams (1982) and I Write Your Name (1983), both with contributions from Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez (guitar).[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.[citation needed]

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 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr., which also featured a cameo appearance by the band.[18] It was included in 2004's Dawn of the Dead, and in the 2015 episode "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" in Season 1 of Mr. Robot.[citation needed] It was featured in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries (based on Carroll's autobiography),[citation needed] and was covered by John Cale on his Antártida soundtrack.[citation needed] The song was used in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James Gunn, and the end credits of the Season 4 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel episode "Everything Is Bellmore", paying tribute to late cast member Brian Tarantina.

Personal life edit

Carroll became sober in the 1970s.[3] After moving to California, he met Rosemary Klemfuss; the couple married in 1978.[4] The marriage ended in divorce, but the two remained friends.[3]

Death edit

Carroll died of a heart attack 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.[1] He was working at his desk when he died.[19] His funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village.[20]

Books edit

Poetry edit

  • 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) ISBN 0-14-058909-0
  • 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain (1994)

Prose edit

Discography edit

Albums edit

Spoken word edit

Collaborations edit

Compilations and soundtracks edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Grimes, William (September 13, 2009). "Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60". The New York Times. Retrieved December 18, 2012.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c Mallon, Thomas (December 6, 2010). "Off the Rim: Jim Carroll's "The Petting Zoo"". The New Yorker. New York City: Condé Nast. pp. 90–93. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e Williams, Alex (September 25, 2009). "The Last Days of Jim Carroll". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Jim Carroll: Poet, punk rocker and author of 'The Basketball Diaries'". The Independent. London, England: Independent Print Ltd. October 26, 2009. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022.
  5. ^ "Jim Carroll: author of The Basketball Diaries". The Times. September 15, 2009. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
  6. ^ O'Hehir, Andrew (April 12, 1995). "A Poet Half-Devoured – Jim Carroll Feature Articles". CatholicBoy.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
  7. ^ Goldman, Marlene (January 8, 1999). "Mercury Rising (1999) – Jim Carroll Interviews". CatholicBoy.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
  8. ^ "Living at the Movies, First Edition - Books by Jim Carroll - CatholicBoy.com". Catholicboy.com. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
  9. ^ Grimes, William (September 14, 2009). "Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote 'The Basketball Diaries', Dies at 60". The New York Times. New York City.
  10. ^ "ON LOCATION : Sex, Drugs, Pick and Roll : Jim Carroll's cult favorite 'The Basketball Diaries' is finally making it to the screen. It seems everyone wanted to star. Leonardo DiCaprio made the cut". Los Angeles Times. July 24, 1994. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  11. ^ Carroll, Jim (1987). Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973. New York City: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140085020.
  12. ^ Woo, Elaine (September 14, 2009). "Jim Carroll dies at 60; poet and punk rocker wrote about travails in 'The Basketball Diaries'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
  13. ^ "The romance of junkie paranoia". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 1995.
  14. ^ Smith, Patti (2010). Just Kids. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 162–164, 166–167. ISBN 978-0-06-093622-8.
  15. ^ "US Hot 100 Bubbling Under (1959-2005)". top40weekly.com. May 13, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  16. ^ "Jim Carroll Band Top Songs". musicvf.com. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  17. ^ MacAdams, Lewis (September 16, 2009). "Remembering Jim Carroll". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
  18. ^ Jim Carroll at AllMusic
  19. ^ "CatholicBoy.com". Catholicboy.com. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  20. ^ Warner, Simon (2013). Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture. New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 370. ISBN 978-1441143037 – via Google Books.
  21. ^ "CatholicBoy.com". Catholicboy.com. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  22. ^ "Edelweiss". Edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
  23. ^ "Pools of Mercury - Jim Carroll | Release Info". AllMusic.
  24. ^ "Jim Carroll - Pools Of Mercury CD Album". Cduniverse.com.
  25. ^ "Pools of Mercury - Jim Carroll | Release Info". AllMusic.
  26. ^ "Jim Carroll - Praying Mantis CD Album". Cduniverse.com.

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waveInstrumentsVocalsLabelsAtlantic Records Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Writing 2 2 Music 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Books 5 1 Poetry 5 2 Prose 6 Discography 6 1 Albums 6 2 Spoken word 6 3 Collaborations 6 4 Compilations and soundtracks 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksEarly life editCarroll was born 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 2 He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers In fall 1963 he entered Rice High School in Harlem but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School 2 He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968 3 Carroll was a basketball star in high school but also developed an addiction to heroin 3 He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan 4 Carroll briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University 5 He dated Patti Smith 3 Career edit nbsp Jim Carroll in New York City 2005 Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke Frank O Hara John Ashbery James Schuyler 6 Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs as influences on his artistic career 7 Writing edit 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 2 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 8 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 4 9 10 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 11 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 12 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 13 Music edit In 1978 after he moved to California to get a fresh start since overcoming his heroin addiction Carroll formed Amsterdam a new wave punk rock group with encouragement from Patti Smith with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City along with Robert Mapplethorpe 14 The musicians were Steve Linsley bass Wayne Woods drums he had previously been in hard rock band Estus Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn 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 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 They released a single People Who Died taken from their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records The single would make it to No 103 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart 15 16 The album featured contributions from Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys citation needed The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp citation needed The song s title was based on a poem by Ted Berrigan 17 Later albums were Dry Dreams 1982 and I Write Your Name 1983 both with contributions from Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez guitar citation needed Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed Blue Oyster Cult Boz Scaggs Ray Manzarek of The Doors Pearl Jam Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid citation needed 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 amp Dragons It was also used in the 1985 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr which also featured a cameo appearance by the band 18 It was included in 2004 s Dawn of the Dead and in the 2015 episode eps1 9 zer0 day avi in Season 1 of Mr Robot citation needed It was featured in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries based on Carroll s autobiography citation needed and was covered by John Cale on his Antartida soundtrack citation needed The song was used in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad written and directed by James Gunn and the end credits of the Season 4 The Marvelous Mrs Maisel episode Everything Is Bellmore paying tribute to late cast member Brian Tarantina Personal life editCarroll became sober in the 1970s 3 After moving to California he met Rosemary Klemfuss the couple married in 1978 4 The marriage ended in divorce but the two remained friends 3 Death editCarroll died of a heart attack 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 1 He was working at his desk when he died 19 His funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village 20 Books editPoetry edit 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 ISBN 0 14 058909 0 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain 1994 Prose edit The Basketball Diaries memoir 1978 Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries 1971 1973 memoir 1987 The Petting Zoo novel 2010 published posthumously 21 22 Discography editAlbums edit 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 23 24 2012 Digital Download 25 Runaway EP 2000 Spoken word edit Praying Mantis 1991 2008 Digipak reissue 26 The Basketball Diaries 1994 Pools of Mercury 1998 Collaborations edit Live at Max s Kansas City The Velvet Underground 1972 Club Ninja Blue Oyster Cult 1985 Mistrial Lou Reed 1986 Other Roads Boz Scaggs 1988 Between Thought and Expression The Lou Reed Anthology Lou Reed 1992 And Out Come the Wolves Rancid 1995 Catholic Boy Pearl Jam 1995 Feeling You Up Truly 1997 Yes I Ram Jon Tiven Group 1999 Compilations and soundtracks edit The Dial a Poem Poets 1972 Disconnected 1974 The Nova Convention 1979 with a once only Frank Zappa performance One World Poetry 1981 Better an Old Demon than a New God 1984 Lou Reed at the Capitol Theatre 1984 Tuff Turf soundtrack 1985 Release 8 1993 1993 Back to the Streets Celebrating the Music of Don Covay 1993 Sedated in the Eighties 1993 New Wave Dance Hits Just Can t Get Enough Vol 6 1994 The Basketball Diaries soundtrack 1995 Put Your Tongue to the Rail The Philly Comp for Catholic Children Songs of the Jim Carroll Band 1999 WBCN Naked 2000 1999 Dawn of the Dead 2004 The Darwin Awards 2005 See also editThe Basketball Diaries James Parks Morton Interfaith AwardReferences edit a b Grimes William September 13 2009 Jim Carroll Poet and Punk Rocker Is Dead at 60 The New York Times Retrieved December 18 2012 subscription required a b c Mallon Thomas December 6 2010 Off the Rim Jim Carroll s The Petting Zoo The New Yorker New York City Conde Nast pp 90 93 Retrieved December 27 2010 a b c d e Williams Alex September 25 2009 The Last Days of Jim Carroll The New York Times New York City Retrieved April 9 2018 a b c Jim Carroll Poet punk rocker and author of The Basketball Diaries The Independent London England Independent Print Ltd October 26 2009 Archived from the original on June 8 2022 Jim Carroll author of The Basketball Diaries The Times September 15 2009 Retrieved March 25 2010 O Hehir Andrew April 12 1995 A Poet Half Devoured Jim Carroll Feature Articles CatholicBoy com Retrieved December 18 2012 Goldman Marlene January 8 1999 Mercury Rising 1999 Jim Carroll Interviews CatholicBoy com Retrieved December 18 2012 Living at the Movies First Edition Books by Jim Carroll CatholicBoy com Catholicboy com Retrieved July 10 2009 Grimes William September 14 2009 Jim Carroll Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote The Basketball Diaries Dies at 60 The New York Times New York City ON LOCATION Sex Drugs Pick and Roll Jim Carroll s cult favorite The Basketball Diaries is finally making it to the screen It seems everyone wanted to star Leonardo DiCaprio made the cut Los Angeles Times July 24 1994 Retrieved October 31 2019 Carroll Jim 1987 Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries 1971 1973 New York City Penguin Books ISBN 978 0140085020 Woo Elaine September 14 2009 Jim Carroll dies at 60 poet and punk rocker wrote about travails in The Basketball Diaries Los Angeles Times Retrieved December 18 2012 The romance of junkie paranoia The Globe and Mail September 14 1995 Smith Patti 2010 Just Kids New York HarperCollins pp 162 164 166 167 ISBN 978 0 06 093622 8 US Hot 100 Bubbling Under 1959 2005 top40weekly com May 13 2017 Retrieved June 9 2022 Jim Carroll Band Top Songs musicvf com Retrieved June 9 2022 MacAdams Lewis September 16 2009 Remembering Jim Carroll The Los Angeles Times Retrieved December 18 2012 Jim Carroll at AllMusic CatholicBoy com Catholicboy com Retrieved February 27 2013 Warner Simon 2013 Text and Drugs and Rock n Roll The Beats and Rock Culture New York City Bloomsbury Publishing USA p 370 ISBN 978 1441143037 via Google Books CatholicBoy com Catholicboy com Retrieved April 10 2010 Edelweiss Edelweiss abovethetreeline com Retrieved April 20 2010 Pools of Mercury Jim Carroll Release Info AllMusic Jim Carroll Pools Of Mercury CD Album Cduniverse com Pools of Mercury Jim Carroll Release Info AllMusic Jim Carroll Praying Mantis CD Album Cduniverse com External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jim Carroll CatholicBoy com AP Obituary in The New York Times Jim Carroll at IMDb Jim Carroll at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jim Carroll amp oldid 1222131996, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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