"This book is as close as anyone will ever come to explaining where Devo's brilliant absurdity came from--and more importantly, why that absurd brilliance was so culturally essential."--Chuck Klosterman

"Extensively researched. . . . The mostly untold story of Devo's beginnings makes this book so fascinating."--"The Wire"

"Given the propensity of Devo to propagate misinformation about themselves, it is comforting to finally have a book that appears to draw all threads of these men, who lived so deliberately, into a knot of actual events. Inspiring stuff."--"Rock Sound Magazine"

The first paperback edition of the highly successful illustrated biography of America's pioneering art rock spud men, Devo.