This I'd say is the essential 25 pages of the book and more than that. 25 pages that are essential for anyone with a feeling for and taste for Rock & Roll. Hell outlines how his and Verlaine's friendship worked and how they recast themselves and collaborated. Shaped their identities and personas. Their unfluences. The way they wrote. Together and separately. The New York music and literary scenes. The other players. The Dolls. Patti Smith. Terry Ork. The way the they coalesced and directed themselves. Towards CBGB's and the New York Punk scene that we know they are hurtling toward. It's seamless, inspired writing.
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