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GILLIAN MCCAIN AND LEGS MCNEIL ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLEASE KILL ME! (DOWNTOWN MAGAZINE NYC)
As authors of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk, Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil influenced a lot of people on several levels. Now regarded as the best-selling book on punk rock of all time, Please Kill Me first and foremost described what the heyday of the New York City punk scene was like as according to people that were around it. It cleared up myths about key players in the scene, and also helped readers pick up on some of the era’s underappreciated characters.
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLEASE KILL ME – READING WITH LEGS MCNEIL THIS THURSDAY IN BROOKLYN!
Legs McNeil will be reading Please Kill Me at Desert Island in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this Thursday, Oct.13th at 7pm. Come out and celebrate the 20th anniversary of Please Kill Me by getting your book signed!
WHY ‘PLEASE KILL ME’ IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ROCK BOOKS EVER! (MAXIM)
Twenty years ago, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain published Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a scabby inside-look at the wildly fun, incredibly seedy and at times terrifying underbelly of the 1970s New York City punk scene.
PUNK’S NOT DEAD: LEGS MCNEIL AND GILLIAN MCCAIN AND ‘PLEASE KILL ME!’ (L.A. TIMES)
They came not to bury punk but to praise it. 20 years ago, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain published “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk” with Grove Press. The format was ingenious — no single person could lay claim to know the whole of the sprawling, anarchically creative, drug-riddled scene.
GILLIAN MCCAIN LITERALLY WROTE THE BOOK ON PUNK! (ELLE)
When Gillian McCain was in high school she took an aptitude quiz that told her she should consider a career in "writing with a sociological bent, especially about fringe groups." A decade or so later, she teamed up with writer and editor Legs McNeil for their seminal history of New York's '70s punk scene, Please Kill Me. Score one for the quiz, right?
PLEASE KILL ME TURNS 20! (PORTLAND MERCURY)
IF YOU’VE READ it, you probably remember exactly where you were when you first encountered Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. I first came across the book as a 16-year-old kid in a small town in southwestern Colorado. I’d recently discovered punk, and went about putting safety pins in my clothes and calling myself a punk, but for all I knew, punk rock began and ended with the Sex Pistols. When I found Please Kill Me on the shelf of the local bookstore, I bought it without question, expecting mohawks and mosh pits. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
‘PLEASE KILL ME,’ 20 YEARS LATER! (NOISEY)
Please Kill Me made its way into my life 13 years ago, when I was 14. I used to hang out at a record store in South Florida, where I'm from, and at one point the store clerks decided to take me under their wing. One of the clerks, Chris, ripped out a tiny slip of paper from behind the counter. He wrote the words “Please Kill Me” on it and handed it to me. "Go to the bookstore and get that book," he said. Music nerd in training that I was, I did as I was bidden without question. And so I entered the world of punk from its very beginning, told by the people who lived it.
GILLIAN MCCAIN IS THE PUNK POET BEHIND THE CRAZIEST HISTORY BOOK EVER WRITTEN! (i-D)
As seminal punk saga 'Please Kill Me' gets a 20th anniversary rerelease, we speak to co-author Gillian McCain about why the antiestablishment genre deserves to be preserved just like any other piece of history.
AN EXTENDED CONVERSATION WITH GILLIAN MCCAIN, CO-AUTHOR OF PLEASE KILL ME! (PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER)
As the authors mark its 20th anniversary, with an edition that includes a new afterword, they will visit Pittsburgh for a reading at the Ace Hotel on Monday, July 18. City Paper spoke to McCain, before a reading in London two weeks ago.
20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: PHOTOS OF THE PLEASE KILL ME READING AT THE ACE HOTEL SHOREDITCH!
Photos of the 20th anniversary Please Kill Me reading at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, London with Gillian McCain.
GILLIAN MCCAIN WITH SPECIAL GUEST READING AT THE ACE HOTEL IN LONDON FRIDAY!
Gillian McCain will be reading from Please Kill Me, the book she co-authored with Legs McNeil, at the Ace Hotel in London this Friday! July 8th