FREAKS OUT!: Oddballs, Weirdos, and Misfits
Rise and Fall of Rock and Roll as It Should Be
This is a book about freaks and for freaks, crafted by a supreme freak.
In his latest madness, Luke Haines composes a secret and underground history of rock based on its most eminent oddballs.
With maddening and sharp wit 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 most entertaining volumes in musical literature.
Through these pages crawl strange creatures 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 tights, among other eerie beings. Freaks Out! is a glorious vindication of otherness
and anomaly, and it is by no means suitable reading for normal people.
