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Please Kill Me : the Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Please Kill Me : the Uncensored Oral History of Punk about?
A star-studded cast of characters, artists, underground reporters, and entrepreneurial groupies give first-hand backstage accounts of the drugs, sex, and power struggles that permeate the punk community to chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground. 25,000 first printing. Tour. div>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.
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It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802115881
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Music
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (136 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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