Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk - Softcover

McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802125360 ISBN 13: 9780802125361

Publisher: Grove Press, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

Review:

Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0802125360
• ISBN 13: 9780802125361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448