The Agenda

Ten Years Later

by Ika Johannesson

The Bible of Punk turns ten. Time to talk about Please Kill Me again, one of the best books on music ever written. The Agenda sent their Swede down to New York to hang out.

It’s Halloween and I’m spending it with three punk rock veterans: Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, authors of Please Kill Me, and Danny Fields—legendary scenester, the Ramones manager who got the MC5 and the Stooges their recording contracts, and main voice in the book. Well, four actually, since Gillian McCain is married to Jim “The Hound” Marshall, a DJ and bar owner who is also interviewed in the book.