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LEGS MCNEIL is co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and is the coauthor (with 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.

POP CULTURE: LEGS McNEIL’S NEVER TOLD STORIES OF PEPSI-COLA

Benito VilaAugust 15, 2018

Legs McNeil was hired to write a centennial history of the soda pop company; it was never published but some amazing stories were gathered before it disappeared...

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

Legs McNeilJuly 25, 2018

Legs McNeil interviews Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding at Cafe Nine just before they play a sold-out show. Robert talks about turning down Bob Dylan's songs an...

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

Legs McNeilJuly 3, 2018

"I know, I know; you were born too late, but here’s a secret passage way to the past... If you operate this book correctly, it will transport you back to those ...

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EXPLORING ROCK & ROLL HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY

Legs McNeilMay 30, 2018

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...

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DEE DEE RAMONE – PORTRAIT OF A PUNK!

Legs McNeilDecember 6, 2017

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...

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

Legs McNeilNovember 28, 2017

Fred on meeting AC/DC! ...

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LEGS MCNEIL DISCUSSES HIS & GILLIAN MCCAIN’S NEW BOOK ABOUT CHARLES MANSON AND THE 60’S

PKM EditorNovember 27, 2017

Legs McNeil talks to Billboard about the book he and Gillian McCain have been working on for 20 years - documenting the late ‘60s California music scene an...

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MOE TUCKER: ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Legs McNeilNovember 21, 2017

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...

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RAY DAVIES NEVER WANTED TO BE A SINGER

Legs McNeilNovember 7, 2017

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...

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

Legs McNeilOctober 12, 2017

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...

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MODERN LOVERS BASSIST ERNIE BROOKS ON RECORDING THEIR CLASSIC ALBUM

Legs McNeilOctober 10, 2017

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...

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JELLO BIAFRA TALKS JONBENET RAMSEY

Legs McNeilAugust 7, 2017

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...

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WAR PIGS: OZZY OSBOURNE IN NUREMBERG, GERMANY

Legs McNeilJuly 20, 2017

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...

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96 TEARS: QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS

Legs McNeilJuly 12, 2017

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 ...

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MY NIGHT WITH JOE STRUMMER

DESTROY ALL ART: THE RETURN OF RAW ROCK & ROLL FROM THE 1990s!

PROFESSOR RAT SCABIES MEETS THE HOLY GRAIL

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A BASQUIAT BOOM

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES PLAY FREE SHOW AT BROOKLYN SKATE PARK

BOB GRUEN’S ELECTRIC PHOTOS OF IKE & TINA TURNER

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POP CULTURE: LEGS McNEIL’S NEVER TOLD STORIES OF PEPSI-COLA

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

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

EXPLORING ROCK & ROLL HISTORY IN NEW YORK CITY

DEE DEE RAMONE – PORTRAIT OF A PUNK!

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

LEGS MCNEIL DISCUSSES HIS & GILLIAN MCCAIN’S NEW BOOK ABOUT CHARLES MANSON AND THE 60’S

MOE TUCKER: ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

RAY DAVIES NEVER WANTED TO BE A SINGER

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

MODERN LOVERS BASSIST ERNIE BROOKS ON RECORDING THEIR CLASSIC ALBUM

JELLO BIAFRA TALKS JONBENET RAMSEY

WAR PIGS: OZZY OSBOURNE IN NUREMBERG, GERMANY

96 TEARS: QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS

MY NIGHT WITH JOE STRUMMER

DESTROY ALL ART: THE RETURN OF RAW ROCK & ROLL FROM THE 1990s!

PROFESSOR RAT SCABIES MEETS THE HOLY GRAIL

POP CULTURE: LEGS McNEIL’S NEVER TOLD STORIES OF PEPSI-COLA

LICKS AND KICKS WITH CHERRY VANILLA