FREAKS OUT!: Freaks, Weirdoes, and Misfits
The Rise and Fall of Rock and Roll as It Should Be
This is a book about freaks and for freaks, crafted by a major freak.
In his latest madness, Luke Haines composes a secret and underground history of rock through its most eminent eccentrics.
With maddening and sharp humor and prodigious clarity, the former leader of The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder —among many other
incarnations— signs a memorable manifesto and probably one of the funniest volumes in music literature.
Crawling through these pages are oddballs like 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 bunch of wrestling villains
dressed in leotards, among other creepy creatures. Freaks Out! is a glorious celebration of otherness
and anomaly, and it is by no means suitable reading for normal people.
