Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 0802115888, 9780802115881

Table of contents :
Cover
......Page 1
Title page
......Page 5
Author's Note
......Page 7
Acknowledgments
......Page 9
Dedication
......Page 13
Epigraph
......Page 15
Contents
......Page 17
Prologue: All Tomorrow's Parties: 1965-1968
......Page 21
PART ONE: I Wanna Be Your Dog: 1967-1971
......Page 43
1 Poetry? You Call This Poetry?
......Page 45
2 The World's Forgotten Boys
......Page 51
3 The Music We've Been Waiting to Hear
......Page 60
4 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
......Page 69
5 There's a Riot Going On
......Page 77
6 Real Cool Time
......Page 81
7 Jailhouse Rock
......Page 86
8 Fun House
......Page 92
PART TWO: The Lipstick Killers: 1971-1974
......Page 103
9 Personality Crisis
......Page 105
10 Land of a Thousand Dances
......Page 114
11 The Poetry All-Stars
......Page 122
12 A Doll's House
......Page 133
13 Raw Power
......Page 138
14 Billy Doll
......Page 146
15 Open Up and Bleed
......Page 152
16 Separation Anxiety
......Page 165
PART THREE: The Piss Factory: 1974-1975
......Page 175
17 Go Rimbaud!
......Page 177
18 Down at the Rock & Roll Club
......Page 181
19 53rd & 3rd
......Page 192
20 So You Wanna Be (a Rock 'n' Roll Star)
......Page 203
21 The Death of the Dolls
......Page 207
22 Why Don't We Call It Punk?
......Page 218
23 Chinese Rocks
......Page 227
24 Metallic KO
......Page 235
PART FOUR: You Should Never Have Opened That Door: 1976-1977
......Page 245
25 Blitzkrieg Bop
......Page 247
26 England's Scheming
......Page 261
27 The Passenger
......Page 267
28 London Calling
......Page 275
29 Fun with Dick and Jayne
......Page 286
30 Who Said It's Good to Be Alive?
......Page 297
31 The Fall
......Page 309
PART FIVE: Search and Destroy: 1978-1980
......Page 315
32 Because the Night
......Page 317
33 Young, Loud, and Snotty
......Page 329
34 Anarchy in the USA
......Page 344
35 Sonic Reducer
......Page 353
36 Tuinals from Hell
......Page 365
37 Too Tough to Die
......Page 378
38 Frederick
......Page 385
EPILOGUE: Nevermind: 1980-1992
......Page 391
39 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
......Page 393
40 Exile on Main Street
......Page 399
41 Born to Lose
......Page 405
42 No More Junkie Business
......Page 413
43 The Marble Index
......Page 420
44 The End
......Page 423
Cast of Characters
......Page 427
Source Notes
......Page 441
Photographic Plates: I-XXIV
......Page 443
Back cover
......Page 468