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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

by Legs McNeil

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A firsthand chorus from punk’s New York origins

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A firsthand chorus from punk’s New York origins

Built as an oral history, Please Kill Me assembles the voices of Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and many other figures associated with punk’s formative era. Its subject is punk’s emergence in New York, approached through first-person recollections rather than a single continuous account. The book foregrounds the movement’s confrontational, nihilistic identity and the overlap of music, sex, and drugs in the scene it documents. This 20th-anniversary paperback edition also adds photographs and an afterword by the authors.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in punk’s New York roots
  • Fans of oral-history music books
  • Readers seeking firsthand accounts from figures including Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, and the Ramones

Themes

Punk musicNew York music sceneOral historySex, drugs, and rock cultureNihilism

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Book overview

"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

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