Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of PunkA 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 |
Other editions - View all
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain No preview available - 2006 |
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil,Gillian McCain No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
album Andy Warhol band blah Bob Gruen called CBGB's Cheetah Connie cool cops DANNY FIELDS David Bowie David Johansen Dead Boys DEE DEE RAMONE dope dress drugs Elektra everything freak Fred fucking Gerard Malanga getting girl girlfriend gonna gotta guitar hair hanging happened hippie IGGY POP JERRY NOLAN Joey Ramone John Cale John Sinclair Johnny Thunders kids kind knew LEEE CHILDERS LEGS MCNEIL living looked Lou Reed Max's mean Morrison Musician never Nico night Okay onstage Patti Smith play pretty punk record Richard Hell RICHARD LLOYD rock & roll RON ASHETON Scotty Sex Pistols shit sitting song started Stiv Stooges Street stuff talking TERRY ORK there's thing thought told Tom Verlaine took trying Verlaine walked wanna wanted WAYNE KRAMER wearing Yeah York Dolls
References to this book
England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond Jon Savage No preview available - 2002 |
Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth Karen Kelly,Evelyn McDonnell Limited preview - 1999 |