Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

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Several different voices will sketch out the same story, and the stories are always great, and the various characters nearly always disagree about what happened and how it happened and sometimes even who it happened to.

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There is a similar book on England's movement, and it is on my to-read list if anyone is interested.

One of the best parts: several people are talking about how Jim Morrison was an 18-carat prick, and Ray Manzarek comes along saying, "Jim was a shaman. all of that owes a debt to these misfits that dared to compose a musical statement of what their lives were really like.

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain | Waterstones

The plot: Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone send Thompson to Las Vegas to cover, respectively, a motorcycle raceand a district attorneys convention.There are some great stories, too, about the origins of glitter and the ripped T-shirt, Iggy Pop’s proclivity for taking off his clothes, bar fights, groupie sex, inflated egos, drugs, drugs, and more drugs, and the deaths. Eric Davidson, front man of the Ohio-based New Bomb Turks, is equally adept at rocking, rolling and writing.