Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

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Grove Press, 2006 - Music - 452 pages
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.
 

Contents

19761977
21
Chapter 1
27
Chapter 3
42
Chapter 5
59
Chapter 8
74
Chapter 9
87
Chapter 11
104
Chapter 13
120
19781980
297
Because the Night
299
Young Loud and Snotty
311
Anarchy in the USA
326
Sonic Reducer
335
Tuinals from Hell
347
Too Tough to Die
360
Frederick
367

Chapter 15
134
Separation Anxiety
147
Chapter 18
163
Chapter 20
185
Chapter 22
200
Chapter 23
209
Blitzkrieg Bop
229
Englands Scheming
243
The Passenger
249
London Calling
257
Fun with Dick and Jayne
268
Who Said Its Good to Be Alive?
279
The Fall
291
19801992
373
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
375
Exile on Main Street
381
Born to Lose
387
No More Junkie Business
395
The Marble Index
402
The End
405
More Depraved Testimony
409
Cast of Characters
431
Afterword to the TenthAnniversary Grove Press Edition
445
Acknowledgments
446
Source Notes
451
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