citation needed] The first known use of "People Who Died" in film was in Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, [6] Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo. It was also used in the 1985 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr.

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The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums - he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars). Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies, was published in 1973. citation needed] The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp. 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. He performed a spoken word piece with the Patti Smith Group in San Diego when the support band dropped out at the last moment.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. His funeral mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village. Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater.

Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, [2] and Poetry the following year. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967.They released a single, "People Who Died", taken from their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol.