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. citation needed] Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid. His funeral mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village.

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He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums - he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars).In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol. 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.

At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater.

Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, [6] Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies, was published in 1973.