Please Kill Me
The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Published on 28. January 2014
488 pages
978-0-8021-9276-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”-Time Out New York
"Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”-The New York Times
"No volume serves juicier dish on punk's New York birth . . . Tales of sex, drugs and music that will make you wish you'd been there.”-Rolling Stone
A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era. This 20th anniversary edition features new photos and an afterword by the authors.
"Utterly and shamelessly sensational.”-Newsday
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Persons
Legs McNeil lives at the ?Schwenksville Narrative Oral History Institute.? He was the former Resident Punk at Punk magazine, a senior editor at Spin, and regularly contributes to Vice online.
Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry. Legs and Gillian's most recent book is Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, and they are currently at work on a new book about the California music and counterculture scenes of the 1960s.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Authors' Note
- Contents
- Prologue: All Tomorrow's Parties: 1965-1968
- Part One: I Wanna be Your Dog: 1967-1971
- Chapter 1: Poetry? You Call This Poetry?
- Chapter 2: The World's Forgotten Boys
- Chapter 3: The Music We've Been Waiting to Hear
- Chapter 4: Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
- Chapter 5: There's a Riot Going On
- Chapter 6: Real Cool Time
- Chapter 7: Jailhouse Rock
- Chapter 8: Fun House
- Part Two: The Lipstick Killers: 1971-1974
- Chapter 9: Personality Crisis
- Chapter 10: Land of a Thousand Dances
- Chapter 11: The Poetry All-Stars
- Chapter 12: A Doll's House
- Chapter 13: Raw Power
- Chapter 14: Billy Doll
- Chapter 15: Open Up and Bleed
- Chapter 16: Separation Anxiety
- Part Three: The Piss Factory: 1974-1975
- Chapter 17: Go Rimbaud!
- Chapter 18: Down at the Rock & Roll Club
- Chapter 19: 53rd & 3rd
- Chapter 20: So You Wanna Be (a Rock & Roll Star)
- Chapter 21: The Death of the Dolls
- Chapter 22: Why Don't We Call It Punk?
- Chapter 23: Chinese Rocks
- Chapter 24: Metallic KO
- Part Four: You Should Never have Opened that Door: 1976-1977
- Chapter 25: Blitzkrieg Bop
- Chapter 26: England's Scheming
- Chapter 27: The Passenger
- Chapter 28: London Calling
- Chapter 29: Fun with Dick and Jayne
- Chapter 30: Who Said It's Good to Be Alive?
- Chapter 31: The Fall
- Part Five: Search and Destroy: 1978-1980
- Chapter 32: Because the Night
- Chapter 33: Young, Loud, and Snotty
- Chapter 34: Anarchy in the USA
- Chapter 35: Sonic Reducer
- Chapter 36: Tuinals from Hell
- Chapter 37: Too Tough to Die
- Chapter 38: Frederick
- Epilogue: Nevermind: 1980-1992
- Chapter 39: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
- Chapter 40: Exile on Main Street
- Chapter 41: Born to Lose
- Chapter 42: No More Junkie Business
- Chapter 43: The Marble Index
- Chapter 44: The End
- Cast of Characters
- The Narrative Oral History Defined
- Acknowledgments
- Source Notes
- About the Authors
