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:

"Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time." -"Time Out New York"
"This book tells it like it was. It is the very first book to do so." -William S. Burroughs
"Does for the Ramones what the disciples did for Jesus." --"LA Weekly"
"Dishes the crud on everyone . . . candid, inside, and detailed." --"The New Yorker"
"Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching." --"The New York Times"
"The riotously funny story of New York punk told by those who were there." --"Daily News"
Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time. "Time Out New York"
This book tells it like it was. It is the very first book to do so. William S. Burroughs
Does for the Ramones what the disciples did for Jesus. "LA Weekly"
Dishes the crud on everyone . . . candid, inside, and detailed. "The New Yorker"
Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching. "The New York Times"
The riotously funny story of New York punk told by those who were there. "Daily News"
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About the Author:

Legs McNeil is responsible for naming the movement 'punk' and is the author of Yuppie like Me. Gillian McCain is a published poet and a former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter.

About this edition

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