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Paperback Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Book

ISBN: 0802125360

ISBN13: 9780802125361

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

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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

Customer Reviews

16 customer ratings | 6 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Those Were The Daze

This book ruled my life in high school (2016-2017). I picked it up through my junior year English teacher’s personal catalogue for our big year-end book report, and had no idea what I was in for. Reading “Please Kill Me” completely changed everything for me musically, culturally, historically, and personally. Yes, it became my whole personality during my formative years, but I still attest this as one of the best collections...

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As authentic as it gets.......a riveting roller-coaster of a read

Sometime in the late 1960's, a bad mojo was beginning to well up within the ranks of the flower power movement. There were quite a few disaffected outsiders that seemed to have figured out that the revolution was not destined to last, that it was in fact quickly becoming a sham. As corporate America began to swallow and repackage the 60's, some of the folks left behind by the peace and love generation began to vent their anger...

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I Love Legs!

I first got this book because a good friend and fellow music afficianado was AGHAST that I'd never read it. Or even heard of it. So, happily she supplied me with a copy for my birthday a few years ago. It's one of those books that alternately horrifies you and makes you laugh out loud in surprising bursts that scare away pets. The stories are told by those who were there, and are so blunt it's almost shocking. It's all...

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Great recounting of the NY underground music scene

I am not sure who invented the oral biography, though I suspect the honors should go to Studs Terkel. This is one of the best representatives of the genre that I have ever read. Some have called the book revisionist, in that it asserts the primacy of the New York and American punk movement over that of the English Punk movement. Properly speaking, it isn't at all revisionist: it is a corrective. In fact, the point of...

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Blitzkrieg Book

This is one of those books that I loved so much it's actually kind of hard for me to put into words and write a review for. My husband had it on order... months before it came out, and after he brought it home, we practically fought over who got to read it first. We eventually had to work something out where we took turns and read it in shifts. Either that or one of us would sneak out and read it when the other fell asleep...

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