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Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies, was published in 1973. He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. 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. James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) [1] was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician.

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He performed a spoken word piece with the Patti Smith Group in San Diego when the support band dropped out at the last moment. The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums - he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars). People Who Died" was most recently used in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn, and the end credits of the Season 4 The Marvelous Mrs.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 was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side.

It was also used in the 1985 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. 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.

Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, [2] and Poetry the following year.

They released a single, "People Who Died", taken from their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records.His funeral mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village. citation needed] The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967. citation needed] The first known use of "People Who Died" in film was in Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.

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