Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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But Nico was a strange one. She was a weirdo. Nico was a fucking weirdo, I mean that’s all there is to it. Beautiful, but a weirdo. You didn’t have a relationship with Nico.
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He’s real quick, incredibly quick. I’m very slow.
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real shit as always
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“Don’t … don’t … don’t make me laugh. It hurts too much.”
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So they were a decent bunch of guys—a nice bunch of guys to have around to blow up your local CIA recruiting office.
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Don’t say that Iggy sat around and ate boogers, but he did.
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I’m absolutely convinced that someday, when people have ears to hear her, in the same way that people have eyes to see a van Gogh now, that people are gonna just go, “WHOOOAAA!”
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Because Nico was a bad seed. You know, she was not like the girl next door.
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And my attitude toward them was that I welcomed any support.
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You know, take away the lights and what do you have in Times Square? Nothing.
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He would just sit there and go, “Um hum, aaah.”
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“I was faithful to you and you kept fucking the fashion model!”
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so you agree, then
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I didn’t like all her poems, but she had some really good lines in there.
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sounds pretty passive aggressive to me, man
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But we were the only band around, really, so we didn’t have to be that good.
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respect
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Yeah, I was the big slut again
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go girl
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I said, “Johnny Thunders,” which was the truth.
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on record, at least, the dolls are pretty shit. but no question this dude knows how to interview. no wonder all these wannabe scene makers loved him
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David Bowie came up it was, “Tell me about Iggy.”
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Bowie has legitimately phenomenal taste. from session musicians to other artists he missed basically never
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So Iggy jumped up on the desk and sang “My Funny Valentine” to Clive Davis. I’m sure that Tony probably made Iggy aware that Clive would be, how shall I say, receptive to a good-looking young entertainer jumping up on his desk and singing “My Funny Valentine.”
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reads a bit different after the Puffy + Clive rumors
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We were extremely impressed with Marc Bolan, it was like, “Holy Jeesuz, it’s like the Beatles again!”
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MALCOLM MCLAREN: I came back to England determined. I had these images that I came back with, it was like Marco Polo, or Walter Raleigh. These are the things I brought back: the image of this distressed, strange thing called Richard Hell. And this phrase “the blank generation.”
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not a liar, at least
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WILLIAM BURROUGHS: I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.
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And Dee Dee said, “We didn’t write a positive song until ‘Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue’.”
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I remember my mother saying, “Is that what you’re going through, Scotty?” I couldn’t even answer, “If you only knew, Ma.”
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I mean, we weren’t racists. But we were unashamedly saying, “We’re white, and we’re proud.” Like, they’re black and they’re proud. That’s fine. We were totally into that, you know? I always thought, if you’re black and you want to be hip you’re a Black Panther, and you tell whitey to go fuck off. And you carry a gun.
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bad. the swastika shit is all bad