Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness

by Neil Strauss

Overview

Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists. Now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, the Rolling Stone journalist collects the greatest moments from the most insane music interviews of all time.

Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he

• Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail & is asked to smoke Kurt Cobain's ashes by Courtney Love
• Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother
• Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert
• Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen
• Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James
• Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson
• Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry
• Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with . . . you'll find out who inside.

Enjoy many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world's number one stars in Everyone Love You When You're Dead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062207098
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Neil Strauss is a ten-time New York Times best-selling author. His books, The Game and Rules Of The Game, for which he went undercover in a secret society of pickup artists for two years, made him an international celebrity and an accidental hero to men around the world. Both books topped The New York Times best-seller list and were #1 on Amazon, and the former has the dubious distinction of being the most stolen book at Barnes & Noble besides The Bible.

His other best-selling books include Emergency, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star with Jenna Jameson, The Dirt with Motley Crue, and The Long Hard Road Out of Hell with Marilyn Manson. 

Strauss has also contributed to Esquire, Maxim, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Source, New York Newsday, and many other magazines and newspapers. Beyond journalism, Strauss has acted in everything from Curb Your Enthusiasm to rock videos by Beck and 30 Seconds to Mars. He has written liner notes for albums by Nirvana; performed on albums by Marilyn Manson; and DJ’ed at clubs around the world. He also hosted his own interview show, The Inner Circle with Neil Strauss, on SiriusXM. And has written television shows for HBO, FX, and Cartoon Network.

What People are Saying About This

Brian Wilson

“One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.”

Britney Spears

“The best interview of my life.”

Bo Diddley

“If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.”

Chuck Berry

“We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.”

Phil Collins

“Well Neil, f*ck you.”

Lady Gaga

“We might as well have had sex now.”

Dave Marsh

“The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.”

Nikki Sixx

“God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.”

Editorial Reviews

Journalist Strauss, who has coauthored books with the band members of Mötley Crüe (The Dirt) and porn superstar Jenna Jameson (How to Make Love Like a Porn Star) now offers a terrific look at the dysfunctional livelihoods of stardom, a theme based on his many interviews for various publications. Strauss went back to his original interview tapes and notes in search of moments—mostly unpublished—that reveal "the truth or essence of each person, story, or experience." He liberally and ingeniously cuts back and forth between scenes, such as pairing the youthful, arrogant claims of Oasis that the band could have been the Beatles in the 1960s with the tortured feeling of the Who's aging leader Pete Townshend ("All we can do in the future is look back"). In other instances, he shows the self-doubt shared by Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner and actor Orlando Bloom. But the best moments come when Strauss has earned such trust of his subjects that he becomes part of some very weird scenes, all of which are presented in all their often hilarious detail: shooting guns with Ludacris, getting kidnapped by Courtney Love, making Lady Gaga cry, and shopping for Pampers with Snoop Dogg. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

We might as well have had sex now.” — Lady Gaga

“If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.” — Bo Diddley

“We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.” — Chuck Berry

“One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.” — Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

“The best interview of my life.” — Britney Spears

“Well Neil, f*ck you.” — Phil Collins, Angry Letter to Neil Strauss

“The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.” — Dave Marsh, Author

“This excellent bathroom read is boiled down like little rocks of crack.” — Library Journal

“Gonzo interviewing at its best.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A terrific look at the dysfunctional livelihoods of stardom.” — Publishers Weekly

“God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.” — Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe

From the Publisher

The best interview of my life.

Britney Spears

Well Neil, f*ck you.

Phil Collins

If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.

Bo Diddley

We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.

Chuck Berry

One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.

Brian Wilson

The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.

Dave Marsh

We might as well have had sex now.

Lady Gaga

God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.

Nikki Sixx

"We might as well have had sex now."

Lady - Gaga

This book contains unpublished tidbits from 227 interviews that rock critic Strauss—who's coauthored books with Mötley Crüe, Jenna Jameson, and Marilyn Manson—has conducted over his career writing for the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among other publications. Each snippet is only a few pages long, with a brief introductory paragraph, and the book rarely lists interview dates. Most pieces emphasize the celebrated subjects' more controversial moments or disturbing attributes but reveal little about them that is not already common knowledge. The majority of the interviewees are musicians—e.g., Snoop Dogg, Pink, Rick James, Patti Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brian Wilson, Lady Gaga—with a smattering of other cultural icons, including Timothy Leary, Jackie Chan, and Ben Stiller. VERDICT Celebrity gossip can be addictive. This excellent bathroom read is boiled down like little rocks of crack.—Lani Smith, Ohlone Coll. Lib., Fremont, CA

Library Journal