Full name: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Authors: Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780802142641 0802142648

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. Similar books: We Got the Neutron Bomb by Marc Spitz American Hardcore by Steven Blush England's Dreaming by Jon Savage From the Velvets to the Voidoids by Clinton Heylin Lexicon Devil by Brendan Mullen In the Fascist Bathroom by Greil Marcus On The Road With The Ramones by Monte A. Melnick Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad 12 Days on the Road by Noel Monk Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds Last Gang in Town by Marcus Gray Under the Big Black Sun by John Doe Dance of Days by Mark Andersen Sound of the Beast by Ian Christe She's a Rebel by Gillian G. Gaar John by Cynthia Lennon Escaping the Delta by Elijah Wald Bach by John Eliot Gardiner Kansas City Lightning by Stanley Crouch The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman