ro accompaniment to the lyrics. The Fugs created some gems of rock from the sixties, and without having achieved any commercial success, may be regarded as the first cult band in the history of rock.
addition to having left a large number of books of poetry, and a handful of good records released to The Fugs, Tuli for most will be immortalized in the poem by Allen Ginsberg "Howl", the words "who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this really happened and were unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of soup and alleys of Chinatown fire trucks, even a free beer. " Asked about this incident, Kupferberg declare "I thought I lost the ability to love, so I imagine could be dead. So I went one day to the Manhattan Bridge and after a few minutes, I jumped. But nothing happened, I fell into the water and was not dead. Therefore, swim to the shore, went home, I stuck a bath and went to sleep. Nobody noticed. " 
After having suffered a cardiac arrest that left him blind last year, Tuli Kupferberg died July 12 at age 86. Another of the icons of the sixties to be in 2010, along with Dennis Hopper and Peter Orlovsky. Another big star has been
The death of former Big Star and Box Tops, Alex Chilton shocked the rock world last March, and Monday was met another death: Andy Hummel, Big Star bassist Although suffering from cancer years agos, Andy Hummel was active in music and had even played in the posthumous tribute to his bandmate.
Now is the third in the Big Star to die, as Chris Bell, who was next to Chilton band leader, died at age 27 in a car accident in 1978.
Although unfairly are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the influence on the music that left the Big Star can be heard until today, and their first two albums are considered essential for any lover of rock.
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