I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Ramones and the history of punk rock in the US:
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil (Author), Gillian McCain (Author)
Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. From Amazon.com
It is somewhat amazing that any of these characters lived as long as they did.
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