Picked this up from @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social yesterday. Used to have the US edition so this is a got-to-have replacement. Starts historically with the Velvets and Warhol in hilarious (and sometimes horrific) Prologue...
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Fantastic book, quoted mode than once in my Ellis book. See if you can get hold of We Got the Neutron Bomb by Mark Spitz and Brendan Mullen, which is essentially the same thing but for LA and is even better for the fact that the importance of that scene often gets overlooked.
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like an interesting read. Reason I'm more enthusiastic about Please Kill Me is that I grew up listening to the bands since 1970. I saw most of them live thru until 1982 when I left UK for the first time. Good wishes for your own writing and music. Cheers!
Nice one. Yeah the NYC bands are deffo much higher profile in the general consciousness, i think unless you were in LA at the time (which OBVS i wasn't, being born in Yorkshire in 1980) it's unlikely you'd've known about them; the legend of e.g. the Germs grew later i think.
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