Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk [Paperback]

“Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”—Time Out New York

“Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”—The New York Times

“No 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 Stone

A contemporary classic,Please Kill Meis 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

Legs McNeillives at the “Schwenksville Narrative Oral History Institute.” He was the former Resident Punk atPunk magazine, a senior editor atSpin, and regularly contributes to Vice online.

Gillian McCainis the author of two books of poetry. Legs and Gillian’s most recent book isDear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, and they are currently at work on a new book about the California music and counterculture scenes of the 1960s.