please kill me the uncensored oral history of punk

From Iggy Pop and Lou Reed to the Clash and the Sex Pistols (the first time around), McNeil and McCain document a time of glorious self-destruction and perverse innocence - possibly the last time so many will so much fun in the pursuit of excess. PLEASE KILL ME goes backstage and behind apartment doors to chronicle the sex, drugs and power struggles that were the very fabric of the American punk community, to the time before piercing and tattoos became commonplace and when every concert, new band and fashion statement marked an absolute first. Please kill me : the uncensored oral history of punk. Memoir edit I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir with Mickey Leigh ( Simon and Schuster, 2009). The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, with Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia ( Regan Books, 2006). In fact, my copy (pictured above) is the 20th Anniversary Edition. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk with Gillian McCain ( Grove Press, 1996). Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, PLEASE KILL ME is the full decadent story of the American punk scene, through the early years of Andy Warhol's Factory to the New York underground of Max's Kansas City and later, its heyday at CBGB's, spiritual home to the Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and Blondie. 'Please Kill Me' covers New York punk from its birth in the mid-60s at Andy Warhols Factory all the way to its eventual death in the late-70s, as corporate America once again begins to catch the wave and numerous members of the original first wave of punk begin to burn out from the excessive and dangerous lifestyles that they embraced. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk has been around for a while.

Please kill me the uncensored oral history of punk