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Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock Hardcover – 16 September 2010

by Cheetah Chrome (Author), Legs McNeil (Foreword)

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Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. Its a tale of success--and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead three times), and resurrection. The Dead Boys, with roots in the band Rocket from the Tombs, came out of Cleveland to dominate the NYC punk scene in the mid-1970s. Their hit Sonic Reducer soon became a punk anthem. Now, for the first time, Cheetah dishes on the people hes known onstage and off, including the Dead Boys legendary singer Stiv Bators, Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, the Ramones, the Clash, Pere Ubu, and the Ghetto Dogs, as well as life at CBGBs, a year with Nico, and more. Straight from the man, these are the backstage stories that every punk fan will want to hear. Never mind the Sex Pistols, heres Cheetah Chrome!

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368 pages
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English
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Voyageur Press
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16 September 2010
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15.88 x 3.02 x 23.5 cm
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076033773X
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978-0760337738
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Cheetah Chrome has played guitar for bands including the Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs, co-wrote punk classics like u201cSonic Reduceru201d and u201cAinu2019t It Fun,u201d and was declared one of Musician Magazineu2019s Top 100 Guitarists of all Time. An enduring influence on punk-rock guitarists, Cheetah continues to write and perform. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and son.Cheetah Chrome has played guitar for bands including the Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs, co-wrote punk classics like Sonic Reducer and Ain't It Fun, and was declared one of Musician Magazine's Top 100 Guitarists of all Time. An enduring influence on punk-rock guitarists, Cheetah continues to write and perform. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and son.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voyageur Press (16 September 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076033773X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760337738
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 3.02 x 23.5 cm

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Legs McNeil is the co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a book widely hailed as the Punk "Bible". One of the founders of the seminal Punk magazine that gave the movement its name, he is a former editor at Spin and editor-in-chief of Nerve. He is also the co-author of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, and co-wrote the book "I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir" with Mickey Leigh.
Legs currently writes articles for VICE, and is reveling in his and Gillian McCain's newest release: Dear Nobody, The True Diary of Mary Rose, which is a real life Go Ask Alice; it is a gritty, powerful, no-holds-barred Diary of a fifteen year old named Mary Rose as she goes on a search of unimaginable extremes to find love and acceptance that eventually costs her life.
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alby denham

Cheetah Chrome

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2018

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Very interesting, and well written piece of social history, great stories from the days of pure rock n roll. Would recommend to all who are curious about the scene in NYC, of the mid to late 70`s. Chrome is an awesome guy who survived and lived to tell the tale, a lot more we're not so lucky.

Mr. Lee J. Neilson

Dead Boy's have great tales to tell.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2013

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It's a sad fact that you just don't get any real characters in rock n' roll these days. Not anymore. Not like Cheetah Chrome and his peers. I was born in 1972 so was too young for the Dead Boys the first time around but as I grew up and discovered bands like Hanoi Rocks and Guns n' Roses and discovered they'd been influenced by them our paths inevitably crossed.

Cheetah writes in an honest, amiable and unapologetic style and provides a fascinating insight into his interesting life. If you're a fan of this scene or just enjoy engaging autobiographies then this book is a must read.

Thank you Cheetah for writing it.

Nikki Demol

a must read... ain't it fun when one of your idols makes it out alive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2018

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a great read and a great story of a decent man who never sold out and stayed true to what he believes in. takes you on a wild ride - you rock Cheetah

Ms. E. R. Swing

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2015

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Awesome

ernie murphy

From the Front lines.

Reviewed in Canada on 10 January 2013

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I just finished the Cheetah Chrome book A Dead Boy's Tale. Great book my only problem with it is that it repeats pages 225 to 272 and is missing pages 273 to 322.

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