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Legs McNeil (Roderick Edward McNeil) was born on 27 January, 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S., is an American music journalist (born 1956). Discover Legs McNeil's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Roderick Edward McNeil
Occupation Author, writer, rock historian
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 27 January 1956
Birthday 27 January
Birthplace Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1956

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.

At the age of 19, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living.

Holmstrom had an idea of combining comics with rock n roll.

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", and it worked.

Within days of its first publication, Punk Magazine, McNeil, Holmstrom, and Dunn were famous.

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".

Holstrom wanted to call it "Teenage News Gazette" to which Ged said, "Absolutely not."

The name Punk was McNeil's idea; Dunn agreed to it instantly, Holmstrom rather reluctantly.

Nicknamed "Resident Punk" in the magazine, McNeil 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."

McNeil is the co-author (with Gillian McCain) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which has been published in 12 languages and helped launch the oral history trend in music books.

The New York Times called the book "lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching."

McNeil is also co-author of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry.

As Publishers Weekly said, "This compulsively readable book perfectly captures the pop culture zeitgeist. It doesn't hurt that the history of American pornography is inextricably intertwined with all the subjects that captivate us: sex, drugs, beauty, fame, money, the Mafia, law enforcement and violence."

McNeil is also the co-author of I Slept with Joey Ramone (A Punk Rock Family Memoir) with Mickey Leigh, Joey Ramone’s brother.

McNeil's most recent book, Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose is another collaborative effort with Gillian McCain.

2014

Dear Nobody was published on April 1, 2014, and received widespread critical acclaim.

McNeil has appeared on many TV documentaries, from the History Channel to VH1, and has produced and hosted a three-hour TV special on Court TV over three nights on the porn industry, which was the highest-rated original programming in that network's history.

2016

In 2016, a 2014 interview with McNeil was featured in Danny Says, the biographical documentary about the influential rock music publicist, Danny Fields, appearing alongside Fields, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, and others.