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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs

by Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey · 2002

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"Lexicon Devilis, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!"—Richard Meltzer

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