Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

McCain, Gillian, McNeil, Legs

ISBN 10: 0140266909 / ISBN 13: 9780140266900

Published by Penguin Books, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History ...

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Artists, reporters, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of drugs, sex, and power struggles

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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