Bonnie and Clyde are believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders.

This compares the heartbreaking dissolution to Silverstein’s Shane Told’s romantic relationship to the irrevocable change to Rome itself after Caesar’s death; it will never be what it was before Caesar died. As Antony states in the play:

…“This was the noblest Roman of them all;
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!’”

A fairly straightforward reference to Julius Caesar’s Brutus, who received satisfaction from killing Caesar. Betrayal in a romantic relationship can work the same way.

Told is essentially telling his ex-lover that she will never forget him. This alludes to Caesar’s ghost appearing to Brutus the night before he goes to battle. Brutus asks why the ghost has come, and the ghost tells him that he will see him at the final battle grounds, Philippi.

Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band The Stooges. Though not initially commercially successful, Raw Power gained a cult following in the years following its release and, like its predecessor (1970’s Fun House), is generally considered an influential forerunner of punk rock.

Iggy Pop is widely known as an innovator and “godfather” of punk rock. He is the vocalist of the lacerating protopunk band The Stooges, having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous stage antics.

Creem (which is always capitalized in print as CREEM despite the magazine’s masthead appearing in lower case letters), “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine,” was a monthly rock ‘n’ roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. It suspended production in 1989 but received a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a glossy tabloid. Lester Bangs, often cited as “America’s Greatest Rock Critic,” became editor in 1971.

Lester Bangs loved the Guess Who, as evidenced by his effusive review of Live At The Paramount.

Lester Bangs was an American music journalist who wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazine. To date, he is revered as perhaps the greatest American music journalist of all time. He died in 1982. He is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film.