Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Name: Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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ISBN: 9780802142641

ISBN-10: 0802142648

ISBN-13: 9780802142641

Edition: 1979

Authors: Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

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This first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life. Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Johansen, Dee Dee Ramone, Nico, Patti Smith, Malcolm McLaren, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to tell the outrageous that bring the punk era to life. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol's New York reign to its last gasps as eighties mainstream metalmania, the phenomenon that was known as punk is analyzed, criticized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there, and who made it happen. Please Kill Me reads like a fast-paced novel, but the energy it celebrates and the…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100



Prologue: All Tomorrow's Parties: 1965-1968



I Wanna Be Your Dog: 1967-1971



Poetry? You Call This Poetry?



The World's Forgotten Boys



The Music We've Been Waiting to Hear



Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell



There's a Riot Going On



Real Cool Time



Jailhouse Rock



Fun House



The Lipstick Killers: 1971-1974



Personality Crisis



Land of a Thousand Dances



The Poetry All-Stars



A Doll's House



Raw Power



Billy Doll



Open Up and Bleed



Separation Anxiety



The Piss Factory: 1974-1975



Go Rimbaud!



Down at the Rock & Roll Club



53rd & 3rd



So You Wanna Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)



The Death of the Dolls



Why Don't We Call It Punk?



Chinese Rocks



Metallic K.O.



You Should Never Have Opened That Door: 1976-1977



Blitzkrieg Bop



England's Scheming



The Passenger



London Calling



Fun with Dick and Jayne



Who Said It's Good to Be Alive?



The Fall



Search and Destroy: 1978-1980



Because the Night



Young, Loud, and Snotty



Anarchy in the USA



Sonic Reducer



Tuinals from Hell



Too Tough to Die



Frederick


Epilogue: Nevermind: 1980-1992



Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory



Exile on Main Street



Born to Lose



No More Junkie Business



The Marble Index



The End


More Depraved Testimony


Cast of Characters


Afterword to the Tenth-Anniversary Grove Press Edition


Acknowledgments


Source Notes