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Legs McNeil | Substack
Legs McNeil | Substack
Author of Please Kill Me, The Other Hollywood, Dear Nobody and coming September 2026: RESIDENT PUNK!!!
Pusherman – Frank Lucas and the True Story of 'American Gangster'
Pusherman – Frank Lucas and the True Story of 'American Gangster'
We’re Heading into Nut Country Today - Legsville
We’re Heading into Nut Country Today - Legsville
DEE DEE RAMONE - PORTRAIT OF A PUNK - Legsville
DEE DEE RAMONE - PORTRAIT OF A PUNK - Legsville
By Dee Dee Ramone, As Told To Legs McNeil
BAIL TALES (PART FIVE): AMERICA’S MOST WANTED ROSE-SCENTED DRUG DEALER - Legsville
BAIL TALES (PART FIVE): AMERICA’S MOST WANTED ROSE-SCENTED DRUG DEALER - Legsville
Remember the line in the David Ayer film “End of Watch” about the four food groups of crime? That line resonated with me, because it’s funny and true. The drug dealer is definitely one staple of major crime food groups. I was always looking for huge drug dealer clients and drug user clients alike. What I was not looking for was a client who committed crimes against unknowing people.
SIGNED PLEASE KILL ME - FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER - Legsville
SIGNED PLEASE KILL ME - FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER - Legsville
SINEAD O’CONNOR: THE JOAN OF ARC SYNDROME - Legsville
SINEAD O’CONNOR: THE JOAN OF ARC SYNDROME - Legsville
It’s very rare that 34 years after you date someone, you get a chance to witness a documentary about what was going on in that person’s life at the time you were dating them. Remarkable, really, but I got the chance recently when Showtime premiered the documentary, “Nothing Compares,” about Sinead O’Connor by filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson.
RAY DAVIES NEVER WANTED TO BE A SINGER - Legsville
RAY DAVIES NEVER WANTED TO BE A SINGER - Legsville
In 2009, Ray Davies toured America to promote The Kinks Choral Collection, which featured new studio recordings of some of Davies’ finest songs backed by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. He performed with the chorus at Town Hall in New York in November. Six of the songs from the classic, underrated Kinks’ album Village Green Preservation Society were included in Davies’ “choral collection.” On the forty-ninth anniversary of the release of Village Green Preservation Society, we present the following exclusive interview with Davies, conducted on Nov. 11, 2009 by Legs McNeil and Stacey Asip, in which Davies talked about his family, his working class roots and the early days of being a Kink. This version is condensed from a much longer interview.
STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995 - Legsville
STERLING SPEAKS! STERLING MORRISON’S LAST INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL, 1995 - Legsville
©1995 and 2022 By Legs McNeil [Originally published on pleasekillme.com] Sterling Morrison (1942-1995) was the guitarist for the Velvet Underground, appearing on all four studio albums that the band made. He left the band in 1971 and moved to Texas to finish graduate school, became both a tugboat captain and a college professor. Legs McNeil interviewed him in New York in early 1995. At the time, Morrison was undergoing chemotherapy. Sadly, he did not live long enough to witness the answer to his very first comment in this interview. He died on August 30, 1995. The Velvet Underground were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the following year.
THE NOD MONASTERY: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW JIM MORRISON REALLY MET NICO - Legsville
THE NOD MONASTERY: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW JIM MORRISON REALLY MET NICO - Legsville
BACKSTAGE AT CAFE NINE STARRING ROBERT GORDON
BACKSTAGE AT CAFE NINE STARRING ROBERT GORDON
©2018 By Legs McNeil | Originally Published on PleaseKillMe.com on July 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 and Link Wray pulling a knife on Sid Vicious.
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