[4] His live performances often featured transgressive acts, including self-mutilation, defecating on stage, and assaulting audience members, for which he was arrested and imprisoned on multiple occasions.

[6] Allin's music was often poorly recorded and produced, given limited distribution, and met with mostly negative reviews from critics,[7][8][9] although he maintained a cult following throughout and after his career.

Allin promised for several years that he would commit suicide on stage during one of his concerts, but he instead died from a drug overdose on June 28, 1993, at age 36.

[7][11] During early childhood, Allin's older brother Merle Jr. was unable to pronounce "Jesus" properly and called him "Jeje",[12] which became "GG".

Allin's family lived in a log cabin with no running water or electricity in Groveton, New Hampshire.

[13] In an essay titled "The First Ten Years", Allin wrote that Merle Sr. wanted to kill his family in a murder–suicide.

Allin and his brother were from that time raised by their mother and stepfather, and settled in East St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1966.

[7] Allin, a poor student, was placed in special education classes and required to repeat the third grade.

"[17] Allin's earliest musical influences were 1960s British Invasion bands including Mott the Hoople and the Dave Clark Five.

In his mid-teens, he and his older brother Merle, who plays bass guitar, formed their first band, Little Sister's Date, which lasted a little over a year.

[18] The group covered songs by Aerosmith, Kiss, and other popular rock bands of the time period.

At one point, industry veteran and the Dead Boys producer Genya Ravan served as his manager.

Both were relative loners and outsiders, both were habitual users of intoxicants, both lived with few (if any) possessions, and both traveled the country relentlessly.

Allin's acoustic output, documented on the EP The Troubled Troubador, was heavily influenced by Williams.

Allin also stated that, at 35, he could sleep (have sex) with 12-, 13- and 16-year-old girls, boys, and animals, and claimed that he raped both women and men at his concerts.

[25] In late 1989, Allin was arrested and charged with "assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder" of a female acquaintance in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ultimately, however, Allin plea bargained to the reduced charge of felonious assault, and he was imprisoned from December 25, 1989, to March 26, 1991.

He revealed on Geraldo that he believed his body to be a temple of rock and roll, and that his flesh, blood, and bodily fluids were a communion to the people.

Another reason given for his onstage antics (by Dino, the drummer of his band) was that he wanted to draw a parallel between his actions and "a society that's going crazy with violence".

He explained his views on death in the film Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, stating: "It's like I've got this wild soul that just wants to get out of this life.

Along with Johnny Puke, Allin ingested large amounts of heroin, on which he overdosed and slipped into an unconscious state.

Later that morning, Puke noticed that Allin still lay motionless in the same place where he had left him and posed for Polaroids with the corpse before calling for an ambulance.

At his funeral, Allin's bloated corpse was dressed in his black leather jacket and trademark jock strap.