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by Legs McNeil (Author), Gillian McCain (Author) "DANNY FIELDS: When I wasn't getting laid elsewhere I went to Max's Kansas City every night ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (3 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349108803
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349108803
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Comes as close to capturing the coruscated brilliance and vein-puncturing style of the Blank Generation as the written word is likely to get - Mojo Archly contentious and enormously enjoyable - Sunday Times Monumental and intensely entertaining - Independent on Sunday


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What Britain refined, America defined. 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 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. From Iggy Pop and Lou Reed to the Clash and the Sex Pistols (the first time around), Mc Neil and Mc Cain 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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You won't be able to put this down., 9 Oct 2003
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A candid account of the 1970's New York music scene. Punk before it was given a name. Anyone who is anyone contributes, and a few nobodies to boot. It is basically a selection of interviews pieced together enabling you to read about different accounts of the same situations, many of which involve the then up and coming, and now rather infamous, musicians of that decade; Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Johnny Thunders to name a few. This is SEX, DRUGS and ROCK & ROLL as its most extreme, and most disgusting.

Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the Lou Reed bar account. Truly horrible! You most certainly won't be able to put this book down but you might need to take a shower once you've reached the other side.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The birth and death of New York Punk rock music., 30 Jul 2000
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McNeil & McCain were two-thirds of the team behind the original "Punk" magazine. Obsessed with the Velvets, MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls - They later had their own pet punk band in the Ramones. "Please Kill Me" rarely lets the music get in the way and sticks to the dirt and apocryphal that you really want from any good pop music book. Written entirely in interview quotes that retain a loose chronological thread it captures the dirty glamour of mid-70's New York perfectly. CBGBs, Max's Kansas City, Iggy, Johnny Thunders, Blondie, Richard Hell and a supporting cast of supergroupies are all here. Ultimately it settles the debate concerning where Punk Rock was invented and it's not on the King's Road. In "Punk" magazine terms the Sex Pistols were the death-throes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and fascinating, 16 May 2007
From the title ('The oral history of AMERICAN punk') you shouldn't be duped into thinking this is much to do with the UK scene. In fact, the story pretty much ends with the [...] Pistols arriving in America and the whole Sid and Nancy debacle.

What you do get, however, is the genesis of punk, American style. The authors take a Studs Terkel-like approach to interviewing and let the major and minor players give their take on the whole scene - from the early days of the Velvet Underground, through the MC5 and the Stooges, up through the Dolls, the CBGB scene and Patti Smith.

It's chock-full of great stories and hilarious anecdotes (Elton John trying to sign Iggy, by leaping on stage at a Stooges show dressed as an ape, for example) - and gossipy enough to make getting through it fun and easy. I've re-read my copy so many times now that the covers are coming off.

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