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The legendary Marvin Pontiac

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mercredi 07 septembre 2005 [n° 377]

Marvin Pontiac—a/k/a John Lurie

“A dazzling collection! It strikes me that Pontiac was so uncontainably prescient that one might think that these tracks had been assembled today.”

David Bowie

The biography says :

Marvin PONTIAC “was born in 1932, the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New Rochelle, New York. The father’s original last name was Toure but he changed it to Pontiac when the family moved to Detroit, believing it to be a conventional American name”.

But don’t take it for face value ! “Pontiac” is really just a front for jazzman John Lurie‘s latest alter.

The Legendary Marvin Pontiac Greatest Hits 1

Runnin’ Round

“Runnin’ Round” is a genuine rock song with a solid beat and chorus. I can’t quite tell what it’s about, as the lyrics, ranging from topics like blind neighbors, Roger Marris and monkeys in one’s head, stay peripheral and painterly in their abstraction. Even on this most a-rockin’ tune it is evident that Lurie-as-Pontiac is having a good deal of fun with this persona.

Jordan Hoffman

Website : John Lurie Strange and beautiful music

CD : Legendary Marvin Pontiac
Marvin Pontiac Amazon.com

Marvin’s funny, slippery, polyglot Afro-talking-blues owes as much to the rumpled NYC hipster-bum Lurie played in Jim Jarmusch 2‘s Stranger Than Paradise 3 as it does to Nigeria or Chicago

The Imaginary City Mayor of Punkville; The Legendary Marvin Pontiac by Howard Hampton Village Voice, October 11 – 17, 2000


  1. “John Lurie, the mad genius behind one of my favorite pillars of New York subculture, the Lounge Lizards, has packaged a collection of 14 new songs under the pseudonym Marvin Pontiac.” Review: The Legendary Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits by Jordan Hoffman [back]
  2. Jim Jarmusch’s Gritty, Witty and Melancholy World NPR Radio (his latest film : “Broken Flowers” won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival). [back]
  3. Stranger Than Paradise (1984 Film) And The Resurrection Of Albert Ayler [soundtrack] [back]
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