Bored, going nowhere and disgusted with the stagnant hippie culture still dominant as late as the mid-70s, Legs McNeil and his friends decided to cover the cruder, angrier new music exploding out of local Bowery dive bars in one of the earliest fanzines, Punk. As a witness to the flashpoint of ‘77 punk, McNeil then penned the definitive reflection on its history, Please Kill Me.McNeil coaxed survivors and living legends into sharing the stories in their own words, and the book doesn’t gloss over the wild, debauched or pathetic in favor of nostalgia. It’s all there in harrowing detail, true to the music’s spirit. Iggy cutting himself on stage, Dee Dee Ramone’s vicious quarrels with a junkie girlfriend, Sid and Nancy, and, most memorably, the glory of creating something that few people “got” in the moment but ultimately altered the pop landscape.

Interview with Legs McNeil on The Gothamist
Punk Magazine