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Please kill me : the uncensored oral history of punk / Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, [editors].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Grove Press, 2016Edition: 20th anniversary editionDescription: 476 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802125361
  • 0802125360
Other title:
  • Uncensored oral history of punk
Subject(s):
Contents:
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 of 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 & roll star) -- The death of the dolls -- Why don't we call it punk? -- Chinese rocks -- Metallic KO -- 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 -- 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 -- Cast of characters -- The narrative oral history defined.
Summary: An "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"--Page 4 of cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"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

"With new photos and afterword by the authors"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-476).

An "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"--Page 4 of cover.

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 of 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 & roll star) -- The death of the dolls -- Why don't we call it punk? -- Chinese rocks -- Metallic KO -- 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 -- 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 -- Cast of characters -- The narrative oral history defined.

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