There’s No Bones in Ice Cream: Sylvain Sylvain’s Story of the New York Dolls
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There’s No Bones in Ice Cream: Sylvain Sylvain’s Story of the New York Dolls
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There's No Bones in Ice Cream, by Sylvain Sylvain, is the inside story of glam heroes the New York Dolls – outrageous, defiant, sleaze kings, transgender posers, drug casualties and victims, not just of their own excess but of an unsympathetic music industry that simply didn't know how to process them. Sylvain, one of only two surviving members of the original New York Dolls, offers a fly-on-the-wall, sincere and often hilarious account of the rise and fall of the Dolls, the group that flew so close to the sun that they exploded in a fireball that lit the touch paper under punk rock. Though their brief, sensation-filled yet doomed career produced just two albums, the Dolls exerted an influence on rock that changed it forever. A cross between the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols, the Dolls became the link in the chain between them, offering a crash course in mischief, cross-dressing and anarchy, but like unheralded prophets of Biblical times they were cast aside until the world finally caught up. "Other people turned the New York Dolls into legends. We just went along for the ride."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction: We Weren’t Wrong. We Just Found a Thousand Ways Not to Be Right
- Chapter 1: Coca-Cola Whiskey
- Chapter 2: I’ll Make a Mummy Out of You
- Chapter 3: Les Chaussettes Noires
- Chapter 4: Junk Science
- Chapter 5: Right Here, Right Now, and Not Later, Baby
- Chapter 6: The Ugliest Band from England
- Picture Section A
- Chapter 7: Cabaret Pas Normal
- Chapter 8: The Tom Jones Shirt
- Chapter 9: Tender Buttons
- Chapter 10: Learning to Drive Girls Crazy
- Chapter 11: Truth and Soul Knitwear
- Chapter 12: Up Your Legs Forever
- Picture Section B
- Chapter 13: The Bug-Eyed Sprite
- Chapter 14: We Have Come For Your Children’s Children
- Chapter 15: Oh Sylvain, I Had So Much Sex in That Loft
- Chapter 16: Subterranean Flash, Sleazoid Rock
- Chapter 17: Be Nice to The People on Your Way Up, Cos You’ll Meet the Same People on the Way Down
- Chapter 18: If You Don’t Believe Me, Ask the Monkey
- Picture Section C
- Chapter 19: Close Your Eyes, Cos This is Gonna Hurt
- Chapter 20: Would You Do This to Elvis?
- Chapter 21: Black Biba Lipstick
- Chapter 22: Y’all Don’t Know How to Play, But Y’all Boogie Like Hell
- Chapter 23: The Power of “We”
- Chapter 24: The Sex Pistols, They’re Your Band
- Chapter 25: Take No Prisoners
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright