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  Please Kill Me

  The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

  by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

  A star-studded cast of characters, artists, underground reporters and entrepreneurial groupies give first-hand backstage accounts of the drugs, sex and power struggles that permeate the punk community to chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground.
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  Walk This Way

  The Autobiography of Aerosmith

  by Stephen Davis, Aerosmith Davis

  Hang on, it's a hell of a ride! From the band that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing" -- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer -- comes a quarter century of rock godhood: the life, the music, the truth, the hell, the lost years, and the raunchy, unsafe sex. And, of course, the drugs. But after crashing in a suffocating cloud of cocaine, crystal... (more)
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  The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon

  by Nina Antonia

  Too Much Too Soon is the definitive story of the most outrageous glam rock band of them all - The New York Dolls. The Dolls, peddling trans-gender pusturing and incendiary rock 'n' roll, were dumped by the record business after making just two albums. But their influence lived on when Malcolm McLaren injected the last of the Dolls' life blood into The Sex Pistols and changed pop forever. From punk to grunge,... (more)
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  On The Road With The Ramones

  by Monte A. Melnick, Frank Meyer

  New Updated Edition The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from their early New York club days in the '70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as "babysitter to psychiatrist,... (more)