I Slept With Joey Ramone

5 best books like I Slept With Joey Ramone (Mickey Leigh): England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond

Author	Jon Savage
ISBN	0312288220

England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

Author

John Lydon

"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon

Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.

Seventeen...

Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones

Author	Dee Dee Ramone
ISBN	1560252529

Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee...

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Author	Brendan Mullen
ISBN	0609807749

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

Author	Clinton Heylin
ISBN	0140179704

Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...