Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

by McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780802142641
• ISBN10: 0802142648
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-13
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue All Tomorrow's Parties: 1965-1968	3	(24)
Part One I WANNA BE YOUR DOG: 1967-1971
Chapter 1 Poetry? You Call This Poetry?	27	(6)
Chapter 2 The World's Forgotten Boys	33	(9)
Chapter 3 The Music We've Been Waiting to Hear	42	(9)
Chapter 4 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell	51	(8)
Chapter 5 There's a Riot Going On	59	(4)
Chapter 6 Real Cool Time	63	(5)
Chapter 7 Jailhouse Rock	68	(6)
Chapter 8 Fun House	74	(13)
Part Two THE LIPSTICK KILLERS: 1971-1974
Chapter 9 Personality Crisis	87	(9)
Chapter 10 Land of a Thousand Dances	96	(8)
Chapter 11 The Poetry All-Stars	104	(11)
Chapter 12 A Doll's House	115	(5)
Chapter 13 Raw Power	120	(8)
Chapter 14 Billy Doll	128	(6)
Chapter 15 Open Up and Bleed	134	(13)
Chapter 16 Separation Anxiety	147	(12)
Part Three THE PISS FACTORY: 1974-1975
Chapter 17 Go Rimbaud!	159	(4)
Chapter 18 Down at the Rock & Roll Club	163	(11)
Chapter 19 53rd & 3rd	174	(11)
Chapter 20 So You Wanna Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)	185	(4)
Chapter 21 The Death of the Dolls	189	(11)
Chapter 22 Why Don't We Call It Punk?	200	(9)
Chapter 23 Chinese Rocks	209	(8)
Chapter 24 Metallic K.O.	217	(12)
Part Four YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE OPENED THAT DOOR: 1976-1977
Chapter 25 Blitzkrieg Bop	229	(14)
Chapter 26 England's Scheming	243	(6)
Chapter 27 The Passenger	249	(8)
Chapter 28 London Calling	257	(11)
Chapter 29 Fun with Dick and Jayne	268	(11)
Chapter 30 Who Said It's Good to Be Alive?	279	(12)
Chapter 31 The Fall	291	(8)
Part Five SEARCH AND DESTROY: 1978-1980
Chapter 32 Because the Night	299	(12)
Chapter 33 Young, Loud, and Snotty	311	(15)
Chapter 34 Anarchy in the USA	326	(9)
Chapter 35 Sonic Reducer	335	(12)
Chapter 36 Tuinals from Hell	347	(13)
Chapter 37 Too Tough to Die	360	(7)
Chapter 38 Frederick	367	(8)
Epilogue NEVERMIND: 1980-1992
Chapter 39 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory	375	(6)
Chapter 40 Exile on Main Street	381	(6)
Chapter 41 Born to Lose	387	(8)
Chapter 42 No More Junkie Business	395	(10)
Chapter 43 The Marble Index	405	(1)
Chapter 44 The End	405	(4)
More Depraved Testimony	409	(22)
Cast of Characters	431	(14)
Afterword to the Tenth-Anniversary Grove Press Edition	445	(2)
Acknowledgments	447	(4)
Source Notes	451