If you like your history bloody, rowdy, insolent, and glitter-filled, this book is for you.
Please Kill Me tells the story of the evolution of punk through testimonies of those who were there. The story begins with the kink and drugged sounds of the
Velvet Underground in 1960's NYC, through the formation of the MC5, the Stooges and Detroit rock to
Patti Smith. Theatrics and visually confrontational theater combined with the rock & roll of the time gave birth to
The New York Dolls, who cross pollinated with London's Malcom McLaren, inspiring the
Sex Pistols.
The Ramones and
Blondie form, punk is featured in
Vogue magazine, Sid and Nancy are dead, and then the Ramones go to LA to film