We were living through the realities of war and bringing the war onto the stage... Everybody hated us, man, says Alan Vega who, along with electronic jazz maverick Martin Rev, formed Suicide, the most terrifyingly iconoclastic band in history, and also one of the most influential. By the time the punk scene they're usually associated with came out of CBGBs in the mid-seventies, Suicide had already been causing havoc in New York s clubs for several years. They were actually born out of the city's vibrant artistic underground as a counter-cultural performance art statement, opposing the war by mirroring its turmoil. This book tells Suicide's whole amazing story like never before, with New York a shimmering, seething backdrop as Rev studies with jazz greats, such as blind bebop pianist Lennie Tristano and his hero Miles Davis drummer Tony Williams, while Vega makes a noise on the new...