Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

by Legs McNeil

Punk before it got merch.

For you if

you want to understand what punk actually was before it became a costume

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Please Kill Me is the snarling, sweat-soaked origin story of punk told by the people who bled for it. Through raw, unfiltered interviews with Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Dee Dee Ramone, and countless others, McNeil and McCain piece together a chaotic oral history of art as self-destruction and salvation. It’s funny, filthy, tragic, and true — a testament to the beautiful wreckage that happens when rage finds rhythm.

Where This Book Lives

Themes: music subcultures self-destruction
Topics: punk movement

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