Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Reviews

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcadeâ€™s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene. From backrooms of Maxâ€™s and CBGBâ€™s to the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles and back, Punk Avenue is a tour de force of stories from someone at the heart of the era. With brilliant, often hilarious prose, Marcade relays first-hand tales about spending a Provincetown summer with photographer Nan Goldin and actor-writer Cookie Mueller, having the Ramones play their very first gig at his party, working with Blondieâ€™s Debbie Harry on French lyrics for her songs, enjoying Thanksgiving with Johnny Thundersâ€™ mother, and starting the beloved NYC punk-blues band The Senders. Along the way, he smokes a joint with Bob Marley, falls down a mountain, gets attacked by Nancy Spungenâ€™s junkie cat, become a junkie himself, adopts a dog who eats his pot, opens for The Clash at Bondâ€™s Casino, opens a store named Rebop on Seventh Avenue, throws up in some girlâ€™s mouth, talks about vacuum cleaners with Sid Vicious,Â lives thru the Blackout of 1977, gets glue in his eye, gets mugged at knife point, plays drums with Johnny Thundersâ€™ band Gang War, sets some guyâ€™s attache-case on fire, listens to pre-famous Madonna singing in the rehearsal studio next to his, gets mugged at gun point, O.D.s on heroin, gets saved by a gentle giant named Bill, lives at nightÂ… Never sleepsÂ…Â A very funny book.
Country USA
Manufacturer Three Rooms Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Three Rooms Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

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