Legs McNeil – Gillian McCain – Please Kill Me (paperback book)

“Utterly and shamelessly sensational.” – Newsday

A contemporary classic, “Please Kill Me” is 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.

Reviews

“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
“This book tells it like it was. It is the very first book to do so.” – William S. Burroughs
“Does for the Ramones what the disciples did for Jesus.” – LA Weekly
“Dishes the crud on everyone . . . candid, inside, and detailed.”– New Yorker
“The riotously funny story of New York punk told by those who were there.” – Daily News

About the authors: Legs McNeil lives at the “Schwenksville Narrative Oral History Institute.” He was the former Resident Punk at Punk magazine, a senior editor at Spin, and regularly contributes to Vice online. Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry. Legs and Gillian’s most recent book is “Dear 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.