Gillian McCain,Legs McNeil

Please Kill Me

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The twentieth anniversary edition of the “utterly and shamelessly sensational” history of punk music—featuring new photos and an afterword by the authors (Newsday).
A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era.
Editors Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain—two of punk music’s greatest chroniclers—follow the movement from its roots in the 1960s underground of New York City, to its arrival in the UK with bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash, to its unlikely emergence as a global cultural force whose impact is still felt today.
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688 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Aldo Martínez Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    Patti Smith was a poet. I think she elevated rock & roll to literature. Bob Dylan elevated it. Morrison’s wasn’t poetry. It was garbage disguised as teenybopper. It was good rock & roll for thirteen-year-olds. Or eleven-year-olds.
  • Aldo Martínez Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    There was no rapture or romance involved. It was just about getting your rocks off at that moment, because going out with girls was still about getting involved and all that shit. With guys it was just easier.
  • Aldo Martínez Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    So I tried it, but I was a miserable failure. I remember I was actually sucking this guy off once, and he said, “Man, you’re not into this.” I went, “Yeah, I know. I’m sorry.”

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