Legs McNeil
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for Punk Magazine. He is also a former senior editor at Spin Magazine, and the founder and editor of Nerve magazine (print only; 1992). At the age of 18, disgusted with the hippie movement that seemed to be going nowhere, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. They settled upon a magazine, assuming that people would "think [they were] cool and hang out with [them]" as well as "give [them] free drinks". The name "Punk" was decided upon because "it seemed to sum up...everything...obnoxious, smart but not pretentious, absurd, ironic, and things that appealed to the darker side". In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: Harvey Kurtzman and The Dictators' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could "hang out with the Dictators". Nicknamed "Resident Punk" in the magazine, he claims (to much dispute) that he was the first person (along with co-founder John Holmstrom) to have coined the term "punk" to describe a certain type of music, fashion, and attitude. He says he came up with the name punk because Telly Savalas used the line "You lousy punk!" on the show "Kojak." According to McNeil: "After four years of doing Punk magazine, and basically getting laughed at, suddenly everything was "punk," so I quit the magazine."
6 Books Written
Montage d’entretiens avec les protagonistes du punk-rock américain, ce livre vivant, drôle, tragique, nous plonge dans la vie quotidienne du Velvet Underground, des Stooges, des New York Dolls, de Patti Smith ou encore des Ramones. Les acteurs relatent avec gouaille des anecdotes délirantes, on rit des frasques d’Iggy Pop ou de l’impayable Dee Dee Ramone. Les amitiés indéfectibles côtoient les antipathies et les amours explosives. Tous dévoilent leur mode de vie extrême, moins centré sur l'image que le punk anglais, refusant le peace and love des années 60 et la culture de l’argent roi qui naît avec les années 80. Mais l'innocence paradoxale verse un lourd tribut à ses excès (overdoses, prostitution) et manipule la dérision comme une arme de destruction massive.
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
by Legs McNeil
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
A raucous and revealing oral history of the birth of the adult film industry, The Other Hollywood peels back the candy coating to let the true story be told -- by the stars, movie makers, and other industry players who lived it. And what a story it Through hundreds of original interviews, contemporary newspaper accounts, police reports, court testimony, and more, Legs McNeil and coauthors Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia trace today's billion-dollar industry from its makeshift, mob-connected origins to the Internet age. Along the way we encounter porn stars such as Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, and Savannah -- along with countless mainstream stars, politicians, FBI agents, and more. Epic, hilarious, and moving, The Other Hollywood contributes to the porn industry the one thing missing in all previous a vivid, tragicomic, irresistible humanity.
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Esta é a história contada sobre os anos 70 e a Blank Generation. Narrando o nascimento do qe hoje se chama punk, desde a Factory de Andy Warhol até o Max’s Kansas City nos anos 60 e 70, chegando ao Reino Unido nos anos 80, os autores, Legs McNeil - que cunhou o termo punk - e Gilliam McCain, apresentam a história do incompreendido fenômeno pop. Em centenas de entrevistas com todos os personagens originais, incluindo Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Dee Dee e Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry, Nico, Wayne Kramer, Danny Fields, Richard Hell e Malcolm MacLaren, penetra-se nos camarins e nos apartamentos para reviver o que começou nas entranhas de Nova Iorque como uma pequena cena artística e se tornou um verdadeiro momento da música. 'Mate-me, por favor' começa quando o CBGB’s e o Bowery eram uma legítima terra de ninguém; revive os dias de glória do Velvet Underground, Ramones, MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls, Television e Patti Smith Group e disseca a morte do punk.
Pepsi-Cola was originally created in 1898 by a pharmacist who simply took the pepsi out of dyspepsia as he had created a tonic to cure his neighbour's indigestion (dyspepsia). Weaving together stories of Pepsi-Cola, this text traces its role in the history of pop-culture.
プリーズ・キル・ミー
by Legs McNeil