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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: (and Other Things I Learned From Famous People)

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: (and Other Things I Learned From Famous People)

by NeilStrauss (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

Join Neil Strauss as he: - Makes Lady Gaga cry - Tries to keep Motley Crue out of jail - Gets kidnapped by Courtney Love - Goes to church with Tom Cruise (and his mother) - Reads the mind of Britney Spears - Hunts down Jackie Chan - Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin - Buys nappies with Snoop Dogg - Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani and hot-tubbing with Marilyn Manson - Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash and sex with Chuck Berry - Gets molested by The Strokes, gets in trouble with Prince and gets Christina Aguilera into bed Also features exclusive UK heavyweight champions Steve Coogan, Noel Fielding, Russell Brand and more ...

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Format: Hardcover
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 05 May 2011
ISBN 10: 0857861166
ISBN 13: 9780857861160
Book Overview: You can tell a lot about someone in a minute. If you choose the right minute ...

Media Reviews
We might as well have had sex by now. -- Lady Gaga
The Mike Tyson of interviewers. -- Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum
The best interview of my life. -- Britney Spears
One of the longest and greatest interviews I've ever had. -- Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys
One of our favourite interlocutors. -- Bono
The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen. -- Dave Marsh
Well Neil, f**k you. -- Phil Collins (in an angry letter to Neil)
[Strauss has] had fantastic access to an enormous range of famous people... -- Keir Hind * * Skinny * *
When dealing with the media-savvy, emotionally frail modern megastar...[Strauss'] techniques certainly get results. -- Andrzej Lukowski * * Metro * *
Strauss becomes confessor, accomplice, champion and prosecutor. One minute he's discussing feminism with Lady Gaga. Next, he's taking part in the Ho'lympics at the home of rapper Ludacris. -- Colin Waters * * Sunday Herald * *
one of the most intuitive interviewers and portraiture artists on the Rolling Stone/NY Times payroll ... Addictive. -- Peter Murphy * * Hot Press * *
Strauss is genuinely trying to shake down celebrity for the small change of wisdom. ... Strauss can be an imaginative and sympathetic interviewer and packaged up alongside his A-list interviews are encounters with unsung heroes. * * Observer * *
Fantastically entertaining. * * Sunday Times * *
It's almost overwhelming when you realise the wealth of people [he has interviewed]...beautifully designed, it's a lovely thing to own. -- Alex Heminsley * * BBC 6 Music Nemone * *
Strauss is a deft narrator and expert inquisitor. He cuts out the flowery descriptors and gumpf that comes with interviewing a star...and strips it back to the revealing nitty-gritty, absurd and amusing exchanges we all wish we could be privy to. ... The perfect book to dip into. -- Kim Taylor Bennett * * Time Out * *
an insight into the inner workings of contemporary fame * * RedHanded * *
fantastically riveting * * RedHanded * *
rare skill... extremely intriguing/entertaining * * RedHanded * *
Author Bio
Neil Strauss is the author of the international bestsellers THE GAME, RULES OF THE GAME and EMERGENCY. He is also the co-author of three New York Times bestsellers - Jenna Jameson's HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR, Moetley Crue's THE DIRT and Marilyn Manson's THE LONG HARD ROAD OUT OF HELL - as well as Dave Navarro's DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. A writer for Rolling Stone, Strauss lives in Los Angeles.