Mike Katz and Crispin Kott comb the boroughs for any and all hints of rock & roll's roots and put it all inside one handy-dandy guidebook; the Rock and...
In 1989, just after he left the Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone called his old friend Legs McNeil and went off for 10 hours. In these excerpts Dee Dee talks about his c...
Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An average high school girl from Levittown, Long Island, her life...
Former head Kink waxes eloquent about his mom and dad, Village Green Preservation Society, the Beatles, Keith Richards, “Madame” Jagger, Rod Stewart and the Que...
An Oral History by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
Brian Wilson: The Beatles' invasion shook me up an awfully lot. They eclipsed a lot of what we'd worked for...
Ernie Brooks, bassist and founding member of The Modern Lovers, talks to Legs McNeil about the origins of the band, recording their classic (and only!) album, a...
Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys talks to Legs McNeil about the JonBenét Ramsey murder, meeting H. R. Giger, seeing the Ramones for the first time and mak...
Legs McNeil has a bizarrely profound experience with Ozzy Osbourne in Nuremberg, Germany, in the same stadium where Leni Riefenstahl made her epic Nazi propagan...
Bobby Balderrama is a wonderful guy who started one of the greatest punk bands ever: Question Mark & the Mysterians, otherwise known as the humans who ...
Most people remember Sinéad O'Connor for her shocking Saturday Night Live performance and her cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 You. In his revealing SP...
by Legs McNeil - Photos by Jim Tynan
For a few years, back in the late 1980’s when I was covering the wars in El Salvador and Northern Ireland, I was lucky e...
An Oral History of Punk By Alan Vega as told to Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain. - Quite simply, Alan Vega revolutionized rock & roll. Along with his long-time collaborator, Marty Rev, their two-piece combo, Suicide was a band about thirty years ahead of their time. ...
LEGS MCNEIL is co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and is the coauthor (with Peter Pavia and Jen Osborne) of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. He was the former Resident Punk at Punk magazine, and a senior editor at Spin.
