Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements: punk. This definitive account is brought to life by the voices of iconic figures such as Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, and Jim Carroll, among many others.

From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol's New York reign to its last gasps as the era of eighties corporate rock took over, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.

This book reads like a fast-paced novel, but the stories it contains are all too human and all too real.