Leigh and McNeil will discuss Joey Ramone in B&N conversation on December 1
MICKEY LEIGH / LEGS McNEIL
Barnes & Noble TriBeCa
97 Warren St.
Tuesday, December 1, free, 7:00
212-587-5389
www.books.simonandschuster.com
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No, I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE (Touchstone, December 1, 2009, $26) is not a juicy tell-all about the late, beloved leader of punk progenitors the Ramones. Instead, it’s an intimate family memoir written by Jeffry Hyman’s brother, Mickey Leigh, with the legendary Legs McNeil. “Jeff was as happy a kid as you could find in Forest Hills in the 1950s: rolling down the grassy hills laughing; standing up, spinning round and round in circles with his long gangly arm outstretched; then falling over like a drunken monkey,” Leigh writes in the first chapter, “I Slept with Joey Ramone – and His Mother Too!” He continues, “Jeff would coax me to join him but warned, ‘Don’t throw up on me.’ I did both of the above.” The book includes an eight-page black-and-white insert of photos dating back to 1952 and even showing Joey with McNeil back in the day, with Ramone reading a TWILIGHT ZONE book and Legs delving into a copy of Billboard. Leigh and McNeil will be sharing their memories of Joey and talking about the book at the TriBeCa B&N on December 1 at 7:00.