McNeil and Gillian McCain doing a book reading at Book Soup in Los Angeles, California on July 26, 2014.
Born
Roderick Edward McNeil
(1956-01-27) January 27, 1956 (age 68)
Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Author, writer, rock historian
Known for
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (born January 27, 1956) is an American music journalist. He is one of the three original founders of the seminal Punk magazine that gave the movement its name; as well as being a former editor at Spin and editor-in-chief of Nerve Magazine.
family. Leigh, Mickey; McNeil, Legs (2009). I Slept with Joey Ramone - A Family Memoir. Touchstone. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-0-7432-5216-4. McDonald, James (June...
Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which she co-wrote with LegsMcNeil. McCain is the author of two books of poetry: Tilt and Religion. Portions...
"LOOKING FOR STIV BATORS". PleaseKillMe.com. Retrieved June 21, 2021. LegsMcNeil; Gillian McCain (2006). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk...
Mickey, and LegsMcNeil (2009). I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5216-0 McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain (1996)...
(1996). ""Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by LegsMcNeil and Gillian McCain" (review)". The New York Times Book Review. Archived from...
Mother Jones. p. 10. McNeil, Legs & John Holmstrom (August 1986). "We're a Happy Family". Spin. p. 78. Leigh, Mickey; LegsMcNeil (2009). I Slept with...
Robert, "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, by LegsMcNeil and Gillian McCain" (review), New York Times Book Review, 1996. Christgau, Robert...
women's heroin addiction. Jeanna Fine at the Internet Adult Film Database LegsMcNeil & Jennifer Osborne (2006-02-21). The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored...
comedy-drama series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2015), alongside Lola Kirke, Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters. In 2020, Vack gave an in-depth interview on popular...
including Victor Bockris' Transformer: The Lou Reed Story (1995); LegsMcNeil and Gillian McCain's Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996);...
time of the Stooges' second album Fun House. Another music journalist, LegsMcNeil, was especially fond of Iggy and the Stooges and championed them in many...
Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-1550-9. McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian (1996). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of...
Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2023. LegsMcNeil & Jennifer Osborne, The Other Hollywood, Regan Books (2005), p. 492 ""Chambers...
Disco: The Story of CBGB. Boston: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571129560. McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian (1996). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of...
zines was Punk, founded in New York City by John Holmstrom, Ged Dunn and LegsMcNeil. Debuting in January 1976, the zine championed the early New York underground...
New York. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374193393. McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian (2006). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of...
record label had to remove the song from the album's track listing. LegsMcNeil recalled: "I was shocked. It was such a great song, so radio-friendly—like...
time of the Stooges' second album, Fun House. Another music journalist, LegsMcNeil, was especially fond of Iggy and the Stooges and championed them in many...
striking Lovelace but said it was part of a voluntary sex game. In LegsMcNeil's and Jennifer Osborne's 2005 book The Other Hollywood, several witnesses...
a companion, the highest degree. He is father to Gillian McCain co-author (with LegsMcNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Oral History Of Punk (Grove Press...
striking Lovelace but said it was part of a voluntary sex game. In LegsMcNeil's and Jennifer Osborne's 2005 book The Other Hollywood, several witnesses...