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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil
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Description for Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Paperback. This is the story of a cultural phenomenon which embraced Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, and more. Documenting a time of self-destruction and peverse innocence, this text has contributions from both stars and groupies. Num Pages: 544 pages, Section: 16, B&W. BIC Classification: AVGU; HBTD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 418.
What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, PLEASE KILL ME is the full decadent story of the American punk scene, through the early years of Andy Warhol's Factory to the New York underground of Max's Kansas City and later, its heyday at CBGB's, spiritual home to the Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and Blondie. PLEASE KILL ME goes backstage and behind apartment doors to chronicle the sex, drugs and power struggles that were the very fabric of the American ... Read more
What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, PLEASE KILL ME is the full decadent story of the American punk scene, through the early years of Andy Warhol's Factory to the New York underground of Max's Kansas City and later, its heyday at CBGB's, spiritual home to the Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and Blondie. PLEASE KILL ME goes backstage and behind apartment doors to chronicle the sex, drugs and power struggles that were the very fabric of the American ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349108803
SKU
V9780349108803
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About Legs McNeil
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.
Reviews for Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Interesting, informative and highly entertaining
Alexa Chung Comes as close to capturing the coruscated brilliance and vein-puncturing style of the Blank Generation as the written word is likely to get MOJO Archly contentious and enormously enjoyable SUNDAY TIMES Monumental and intensely entertaining INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Alexa Chung Comes as close to capturing the coruscated brilliance and vein-puncturing style of the Blank Generation as the written word is likely to get MOJO Archly contentious and enormously enjoyable SUNDAY TIMES Monumental and intensely entertaining INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY