Sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, PLEASE KILL ME is a history of the birth of punk rock told by many of the people involved. Starting with the Velvet Underground, one of the bands that provided inspiration for the movement, Legs McNeil and co-author Gillian McCain interview members of the New York Dolls and the MC5, as well as Iggy Pop, ...
With his colleague Jennifer Osbourne, the former punk-rock writer Legs McNeil explores the remarkable growth of the pornography industry in the second half of the 20th century through the eyes of its actors, producers, and of the gangsters who controlled them. Anonymous, drug-fueled sex in dilapidated hotel rooms, desperate, damaged people, and ...
Pepsi-Cola was originally created in 1898 by a pharmacist who simply took the "pepsi" out of "dyspepsia" as he had created a tonic to cure his neighbour's indigestion (dyspepsia). Weaving together stories of Pepsi-Cola, this text traces its role in the history of pop-culture.
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