Gonzo’s failed attempts to cover the Mint 400 race, then the Police Convention on Narcotics, have become legendary. It’s fitting then that now, fifty years on and twenty years after the “unfilmable” book was finally brought to yoke by Terry Gilliam, that there is a new Blu Ray release of the cult classic. The book’s many quirky and hysterical adventures of Raoul Duke and Dr. Thompson immortalised his semi-autobiographical chronicle of wretched, debauched and drug-addled mayhem in America’s most psychedelic city. It’s been almost half a century since Hunter S.
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