Punk’s holy trinity, if it has one, would be sex, drugs and rock & roll. For the past 30 years, author and filmmaker Martin Torgoff has examined the middle ...
Please Kill Me profiles 5 "crazy diamonds" - brilliant musicians whose careers were derailed after becoming acid casualties
Rock & roll is littered with th...
Some folks find their religion in church, me I found mine in the 99 cent record bin of a trashy southern Woolworth's. On that fateful day in 1971, from that bin...
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...
Gregg Allman, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band with his older brother Duane, died on Saturday at his home in Savannah, Georgia. He was 69.
The Associate...
Denis Johnson, the writer most well-known for Jesus' Son, died on May 24, 2017 at age 67
Great writers are not necessarily good storytellers, but when these tw...
By Danny Fields
(Interviewers note: Natalie and I met when I was working at Elektra Records in the late 1960’s. I’d just persuaded my reluctant bosses to sign Iggy and the Stooges, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to a recording contract by presenting them as part of a “package deal.” The aim of Elektra was really to get the MC5, who were EXPLODING in the Midwest, signed to the label. The MC5 were sort of the Stooges “Big Brother” band, we all claimed....
In this rare, unpublished interview from 2001, Jim Carroll talks about The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Harmony Korine, Sherman Alexie ...
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. ...
PKM 20th in the NME!! - -
"Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk written by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, was published 20 years ago this year. It's credited as the book that popularised the oral history format, but, more than that, it's an essential read for anyone with even the slightest interest in the movement. "...
Mick Jagger with Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham (left), London, 1964. (Photo by Terry O'Neill/Getty Images)
Notorious rock & roll publicis...
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...
We Will Fall: The Death and Rise of The Stooges
Death, its the greatest career move of them all. Ask Elvis, or Jacko. But Iggy did ‘em one better; he’s the onl...
