When reading this book I thought that if I had read it when I was younger I probably would have got in a lot more trouble.

Everyone’s lives seemed so fantastic. Then about 2/3rds of the way through you see it all begin to horribly fall apart. Quite, quite horribly.

…because, frankly, if you haven’t devoured and enjoyed this book, i probably don’t have anything to say to you.

This is a great book, compiled from many many interviews with pioneers of the mostly American punk scene in the 70s. There’s stuff here about the Velvet Underground, MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, New York Dolls, Ramones, Bowie, Dead Boys, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, almost everyone involved in the birth of the punk movement in the US. If only there were a book like this about the UK scene.