by Charlie Smith on April 1st, 2021 at 8:20 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
A former manager of the legendary Vancouver punk band D.O.A. has died.
The news of Ken Lester s passing came in a post by musician and painter Jean Smith on her Facebook page. Smith is a member of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal with Lester s brother David.
D.O.A. hired Lester in 1979 after the band went on its first North American tour. He parted ways with the band in 1988, according to frontman Joe Keithley s 2003 memoir,
I, Shithead: A Life in Punk.
In 2015, Keithley told
Straight contributor Allan MacInnis that it was Lester s idea to put the famous image of Margaret Trudeau going commando on the cover of the band s 1978 EP,