Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk as Told by Its Actors

Authors: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain , Héloïse Esquié (Translator)

THE compendium on American punk: the Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, the New York Dolls, the Heartbreakers, Pattie Smith, the Ramones... A montage of interviews with the protagonists of American punk rock, this lively, funny, and tragic book immerses us in the daily lives of the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, and the Ramones. The actors recount hilarious anecdotes with glee, and we laugh at the antics of Iggy Pop and the priceless Dee Dee Ramone. Unwavering friendships rub shoulders with antipathies and explosive loves. All reveal their extreme lifestyle, less image-focused than English punk, rejecting the peace and love of the 1960s and the culture of money that emerged in the 1980s. But paradoxical innocence pays a heavy price for its excesses (overdoses, prostitution) and manipulates derision like a weapon of mass destruction.

ISBN: 979-1030412246