David Bowie: from 1970s' Ziggy Stardust to reclusive icon. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images
Bowie discusses the rockstar persona of Ziggy Stardust ...
Our pal, actor Curtis Armstrong, lays down the details of Harry Nilsson's impressive career and makes a pledge for his induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
This is Part One of the original interview that Legs did with Angela Bowie for Please Kill Me.
L - I wanted to start with Pork coming to London. Thi...
In the 1965 film, Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine, Vincent Price plays an evil scientist who creates beautiful, bikini-clad female robots with the push ...
1. Billion Dollar Baby by Bob Greene (Atheneum)
Columnist Bob Greene travels with the Alice Cooper Band and plays Santa Claus during a Christmas tour and g...
BY AMY HABEN
I just received my copy of San Francisco based zine 'Teenage News' Issue #2, in the mail. Created by Gus Bernadicou, this B&W 87 page m...
By Legs McNeil
“Really Arturo, ABBA?” I shake my head in disbelief, as I enter the
loft where the Swedish rock band is blaring from the record player next&nbs...
By Keith Morris as Told to Legs McNeil
via Black Flag: Anatomy of a Lawsuit | VICE United States.
SEEDS OF DISCONTENT
The way that I met Greg Ginn was through his younger sister, Erica, while I was working at this record store, Rubicon, on Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach in 1975. The gentleman who owned the record store, Michael, had a mad crush on Erica. So Greg Ginn would walk down to the record store with his sister—and Erica and Michael would go off to do whatever young lovers do—hold hands and watch the seagulls fly or the surfers on Hermosa Beach. You know, they’d get lunch or beer or cigarettes, and I would be left to run the record store while Greg Ginn hung around, waiting for his sister....
BY LEGS MCNEIL
art by Jason Gonzalez
"Wanna go for a drink?" I asked Norman Mailer, standing on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street, when I realiz...
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.