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Agile, well-researched... The best account of punk's nascent years since Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's seminal Please Kill Me. With equal parts spirit and scholarship, Beeber succeeds in placing this still-influential music within a broader historical and cultural context, and assures that punk's 'secret history' is a secret no more. -- The Boston Globe

"""Agile, well-researched... The best account of punk's nascent years since Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's seminal Please Kill Me. With equal parts spirit and scholarship, Beeber succeeds in placing this still-influential music within a broader historical and cultural context, and assures that punk's 'secret history' is a secret no more."" -- The Boston Globe"" ""A unique new perspective on the history of punk rock."" --Tommy Ramone, The Ramones ""Shocking confessions of an eternally wicked tribe of dysfunctional kids in search of an identity."" --Malcolm McLaren, manager for the Sex Pistols ""A beautiful, well-written book that's not only the kind you can't put down but also a true revelation."" --Alan Vega, Suicide ""A remarkably rich and rewarding read."" -- The Dallas Morning News ""Beeber is an original thinker with an impressive gift for sociology, psychology and gossip."" --Ketzel Levine, NPR ""The best account of punk's nascent years."" -- The Boston Globe ""Mines a vein in punk's needle-marked history that no one else has explored and is highly recommended."" -- Vanity Fair ""Entertaining, engrossing, and provocative."" -- The Villager"

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Steven Lee Beeber 's writing has appeared inBridge, Conduit, Fiction, Heeb,Maxim, MOJO, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Playboy.com, Rain Taxi, Spin and elsewhere. He is the editor of Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless.

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