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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

Book information

Publisher
Grove press
Year
1996
ISBN
0802115888, 9780802115881
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1449895 bytes)
Pages
468\0
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2014-06-02 15:54:28

Description

A star-studded cast of characters, artists, underground reporters, and entrepreneurial groupies give first-hand backstage accounts of the drugs, sex, and power struggles that permeate the punk community to chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground. 25,000 first printing. Tour. div>A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.

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