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.

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REMEMBERING PUNK, THE MAGAZINE, MUSIC, MOMENT IN TIME

Legs McNeil·June 14, 2021

Five years after the punk wave had washed over New York and London, Legs McNeil looked back in...

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G. GORDON LIDDY: REST IN PEACE (NOT)

Legs McNeil·April 5, 2021

G. Gordon Liddy was one of the memorable characters to emerge from the Watergate scandals. A former FBI...

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MEET THE BEATLES WITH MILES: AN INTERVIEW BY LEGS MCNEIL

Legs McNeil·January 7, 2021

Miles (aka Barry Miles) had a front-row seat to the London underground scene of the 1960s, as a...

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‘SHELLAC IN HIS VEINS’: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR STEIN

Legs McNeil·January 9, 2019

As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular...

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NORMAN MAILER MEETS THE RESIDENT PUNK, 1979

Legs McNeil·November 16, 2018

The great novelist had just published The Executioner’s Song—which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize—when he...

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STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995

Legs McNeil·October 11, 2018

Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the...

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BACKSTAGE AT CAFE NINE: A PLAY IN ONE ACT, STARRING ROBERT GORDON

Legs McNeil·July 25, 2018

Legs McNeil interviews Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding at Cafe Nine just before they play a sold-out show....

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TIME TRAVEL! WITH LEGS McNEIL AND THE ROCK & ROLL EXPLORER GUIDE TO NYC

Legs McNeil·July 3, 2018

“I know, I know; you were born too late, but here’s a secret passage way to the past…...

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EXPLORING ROCK & ROLL HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY

Legs McNeil·May 30, 2018

Mike Katz and Crispin Kott comb the boroughs for any and all hints of rock & roll’s roots...

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DEE DEE RAMONE – PORTRAIT OF A PUNK!

Legs McNeil·December 6, 2017

In 1989, just after he left the Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone called his old friend Legs McNeil and...

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AND NOW A FEW MINUTES WITH ROCK & ROLL FRED! (OUR FAVORITE POSTMASTER)

Legs McNeil·November 28, 2017

Fred on meeting AC/DC!...

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MOE TUCKER: ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Legs McNeil·November 21, 2017

Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An...

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RAY DAVIES NEVER WANTED TO BE A SINGER

Legs McNeil·November 7, 2017

Former head Kink waxes eloquent about his mom and dad, Village Green Preservation Society, the Beatles, Keith Richards,...

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I GET AROUND – WHEN GLEN CAMPBELL REPLACED BRIAN WILSON IN THE BEACH BOYS!

Legs McNeil·October 12, 2017

An Oral History by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Brian Wilson: The Beatles’ invasion shook me up an...

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