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2 unusual facts about Gordon Stevenson


Gordon Stevenson

Following a move to New York, he married Mirielle Cervenka, also known as "Spike" (older sister of Exene Cervenka of the band X), and became the bass player for Lydia Lunch's band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks between November 1977 to June 1978, one of several No Wave bands featured on the album No New York.

Baltimore-based actress Cookie Mueller wrote about Gordon Stevenson, and quotes a personal letter from him written during his illness, in Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, published by Semiotext(e) after her death, also from AIDS, in 1989.



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