Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802125360 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great Book - You Might Feel The Need To Bathe After Reading It" according to Dirk Drudgler. As crazily complete an account of a musical movement as you will ever read. I hate to say it, but this is my era and I was completely engrossed by the depraved and drugged out path Punk took through its all too brief lifetime.The book is entirely made up of interviews from everyone who could possibly have anything to say about the seedy history of Punk music. There is no descriptive content other than these interviews which are carefully and cleverly woven together to provide a dynamic timeline of this ugly step child sub-genre of rock and roll. Everyone is interviewed, from musicians to producers to jou. Gayle Elizabeth said This may be one of the most complete and perfect histories ever compiled. This may be one of the most complete and perfect histories ever compiled, of any era, in any lifetime. Legs has contributed something to connect those of us who wish we had been there to the artists who make us feel like we were. If you know that punk was never just about a new way to make some noise, this will help you get deeper into the heart and soul of it, with stories of wild nights in the company of frustrated poets, street hustlers, guitar slingers, and observers of life.. Stinking beauty This book needs a stinky smell of glue, bubble gum and ,why not?, vomit to make it more "real".A true account for mthose who were there.Just a point, it's a contradiction the creative monster that David Bowie turned out to be, no disrespect to the fallen master, to check here his evolution from mere mortal to musical god.The stooges' stories are amazing, avoid the crappy authorized biography, when was punk rock authorized?
. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interes
Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”Time Out New YorkLurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching Resounds with authenticity.”The New York TimesNo 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 StoneA 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