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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802115888 ISBN 13: 9780802115881

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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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 Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802115888
• ISBN 13: 9780802115881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: McNeil Legs, McCain Gillian