"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.