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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness Paperback – March 15, 2011

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You can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them. 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 & gets kidnapped 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

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

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544 pages
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English
Publication date

March 15, 2011
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6 x 1.36 x 9 inches
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0061543675
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978-0061543678
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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 Strauss went back to his original interview tapes and notes in search of moments—mostly unpublished—that reveal "the truth or essence of each person, story, or experience."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.)
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“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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ It Books; 1st edition (March 15, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061543675
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061543678
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.57 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.36 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,143,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. He is also the coauthor of four other bestsellers--Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, and Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home. He can be found at www.neilstrauss.com.

His latest book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, was released on October 13. The review in Grantland described it as follows:

"I want you to read this book. I want your partners to read this book. I want your families, your friends, your coworkers, and your colleagues to read this book. I want women to read it, and men — especially men — to read it. But more than that, I want you to think critically about it, about what it says about you and the world around you and your romantic relationships. I want it to inspire you to dig deep inside yourself and figure out what’s stopping you from making yourself happy: I want it to inspire you to embrace and engage with love, in an honest and healthy way."

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Lovechef21

Altered my perception of celebrities and showbiz in general. I feel more individually happier and have greater self-worth.

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018

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It changed my view of celebrity and of people in general. I look at so many of these people and all the rest in showbiz-land totally different because of this book. Tom Cruise punching a microwave, Jay Leno so much funnier than I'd ever seen him on the Tonight Show that it lead me to purchase his hysterical lost autobiography, Joni Mitchell an egotistical bleep. The range of celebrities covered here will appeal to a wide age-range, and even wider if taken for their pure interest as human beings who are just as surprisingly normal as the rest of us, or totally bonkers.

Not a collection of interviews as you might think. It's the best parts of the best interviews edited together like a mix-tape, often segmented together by connection or contrast in theme, splitting the interviews up so that you are not just reading one interview, then the next. You read a segment for a few pages, switch to someone else, and come back to the same people again; not always, but it's mostly like that. I found it to be a nice creative way of putting the book together, and I was thoroughly entertained.

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Nora Davis

A Book about Life

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018

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I think my original intent when buying this book was to read dirt on celebrities. There is that, but more. People are flawed and make poor choices in search of happiness; some of them just happen to be rich and famous. I ended up enjoying stories about people I’d never heard of just as much as the ones about Lady Gaga or Cher. The book also introduced me to music by some of those people I’d never heard of as well as reignited my interest in music from points in my life years ago. This book shows the power of asking questions and finding connections with other people.

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Done in 60 Seconds

The section with Julian Casablancas is pretty funny but there's not much redeeming about this book

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2014

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I'm no Neil Strauss fanatic. The Game changed my life and Emergency was a very interesting read. I've never read his rock bios or even his interviews. So ELYWYD was a miss for me. It's become a bathroom book. I was hoping for more of a narrative but there really isn't one, it's just an anthology of mostly bland interviews.

Maybe i'm of a dissenting opinion but i don't find Lady Gaga all that interesting. I think it was a mistake to put her in the book, as nobody will care or even really remember her a decade from now. On top of that, it's just her backstage rambling about her family. Who cares?

The section on Brian Wilson should have been interesting but it's not. All we learn about him is that his wife answers for him a lot because he's done so many drugs that it's impossible for him to complete a thought.

For some reason, Strauss goes on for page after page about what happened to wax sculptures from a closed-down Nashville museum. Again, who cares? They ended up where you'd expect them to end up. Melting in a basement somewhere.

The Who? Who cares?

The guy from Soul Asylum? Who REALLY cares?

The section with Julian Casablancas is pretty funny but there's not much redeeming about this book. And it's long. Strauss phoned it in with this one.

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Traci S

I couldn’t put it down

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2019

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Engaging, witty, sad, entertaining, and profound. This book of portions of interviews by journalist Neil Strauss is all of those things. Traveling through these interviews through the lives of legends and the lives of people I knew nothing about captivated me. He brings it all together with the lessons he learned from the lives of those he interviewed.

The book is long and worth every moment spent reading it.

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vpp

Wow. Follow Strauss's instruction, don't cherry-pick.

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2019

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This guy knows what he's doing! Normally, I 'd have poked around, reading about artists whose work I knew. Instead, the qualities captured in these beautifully edited interviews inspired such interest I'd jump online to listen to the work of performers and groups -- head-bangers, shock-rockers, whaaaaat!? I'm a grandmother! -- and not only did I have a better understanding in some cases of the artistry involved but I found an interest in work I never imagined I'd like. Further, and maybe more importantly, having taken seriously the strong warning about skipping around, the continuity one 'scene' to the next was always pointed and sometimes very funny or moving. There are viewpoints captured here that aren't always comfortable; so much the better! I loved it.

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Erik Ketzan

So much more than a compilation of interviews

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2011

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I was pleasantly surprised by Everyone Loves You When You're Dead (ELYWYD?). I was expecting a collection of Strauss' interviews over the years, assembled, like every other such book, in some kind of mundane order-- the interview with Madonna, then Gaga, then Bowie, etc.-- I was expecting to read the interviews I was interested in and skip the ones I wasn't.

Thankfully, ELYWYD is so much more than that. The book splices dozens of Strauss' interviews into a narrative so that, unlike most books of interviews, you actually want to read this one cover to cover. The narrative sometimes follows a theme (contrasting different rock stars' views on faith, struggles with addictions, their childhoods, battles with record companies, etc.), and other times explores a particular story (for instance why some members of Pink Floyd don't speak to one another and why Pete Townshend resisted re-forming The Who).

Like most of Strauss' books, this one's a page-turner. I read over 300 pages in one day. The book goes down so easy that it's easy to take for granted how *big* it is, in every sense. It's the condensation of apparently a couple decades worth of rock journalism, and assembling such a crazily entertaining narrative from what must have been thousands of hours of interview tapes must have been no easy task. But as entertaining and fun as the book is, it's also a deep and surprisingly illuminating exploration of fame, art, and ego. It's a major and important book on music, stardom, and, well, the times we live in.

There's a lot more to say, and I'm sure many other reviewers will jump in and say it. Anyone with a serious interest in music or pop culture in general will probably devour Strauss' ELYWYD.

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Sarah Tipper

Everybody Loves You When You're Neil Strauss :)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2013

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This is a great book to dip into and out of, as well as being beautifully structured so readable in a short space of time. There will be interviews with people you've already heard of and are a fan of, interviews with people you don't like, and interviews with people you were previously unaware of. All of these interviews are woven together wonderfully. Neil's ability as an interviewer means he gets great stories and he talks to people who are obscure or usually reluctant to do interviews. If I wasn't busy already I'd like to be Neil Strauss, it sounds like he had fun talking to some of these people. I especially loved the epilogue, where Neil puts together a list of instructions for living, based on other people's commonly made mistakes.

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mal

Haven't read it yet!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2014

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I haven't read the book yet it it was delivered within the specified time and was well packaged. The transaction was painless from the moment I clicked checkout so I'm grateful and I'm sure as it's Neil Strauss I'll have a good read when I get around to it. Many thanks.

T. Rafferty

Scattergun and interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2012

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Snippets and insights from many interviews - entertaining, good for dipping in to. There is some lack of coherence - but when there are so many interviewees, that is not a surprise.

A good read

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mike mackenzie

Dip in

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2014

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Easy reading, something to dip into and not get to engrossed that you can't put down, some great interviews here though

John

great present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2012

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well received and my son is very pleased to receive the book - want to read it after he has finished with it

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