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 making a...
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. ...
When Punk magazine writer, Mary Harron, went to England to interview Johnny Rotten in the autumn of 1976, she returned to New York infected with Sex Pistols Fev...
Legs McNeil will be reading at Slash Run in Washington DC this Saturday night March 25. Show starts at 8pm. Special guest reader will be PKM's own Amy Haben. ...
1. Over The Edge (1979) -- Matt Dillon's first movie about kids in some suburban California town that rebel against the cops is fantastic, though it didn't really get much attention when it came out....
From their meager start as The N' Betweens to Ambrose Slade, and finally becoming just Slade, the four boys from Walsall, England made it to #1. Best known for songs like 1972's, "Mama Were All Crazee Now," which was later covered by The Runaways, and "Cum On Feel The Noize," which was turned into a hit by Quiet Riot. This band was majorly influential and yet have a Spinal Tap quality to them. With their ridiculous outfits, hair, and absent minded comments, you expect Christopher Guest to walk into frame.
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The recording of a very sweet song, "Oh my love." John Lennon is singing and playing piano with George on guitar. Phil Spector is also listening in with groovy shades on....
Iggy Pop (Photo by Andy Kent- 1977)
"At the time I was the first guy they called a punk. And they used that term for me to represent the idea of someone that...
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.
