FREAKS OUT!: Perverts, rare and maladjusted

The Rise and Fall of Rock and Roll as It Should Be

This is a book about freaks and for freaks, devised by a freak Capital letter. In his latest madcap work, Luke Haines composes a secret, underground history of rock through its most eminent eccentrics. With unsettling, biting humor and prodigious lucidity, the former frontman of The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder—among many other incarnations—writes a manifesto worthy of framing and, quite possibly, one of the funniest volumes in music literature.

These pages are crawled by strange creatures such as Gene Vincent, The Shadows, The Incredible String Band, Jim Morrison, T. Rex, Gary Glitter, Lou Reed, Morrissey, The Fall, The Go-Betweens, the Manson girls and a pack of wrestling villains dressed in leotards, as well as other creepy creatures. Freaks Out! It is a wonderful vindication of otherness and anomaly that, without a doubt, is not suitable reading for normal people.