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

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

by Neil Strauss (Goodreads Author)

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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 Motley Crue out of jail & gets kidnapped by Courtney Love

Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise...more

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Published March 15th 2011 by It Books (first published 2011)

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Nov 07, 2011 Scott rated it 3 of 5 stars

Really interesting collection of interviews. Strauss has nicely compiled some of the most revealing and bizarre interviews from musicians, celebrities, and entertainers. Some of the most interesting moments of the book are also some of the most unexpected; like when he interviews David Koresh's former girlfriend (before Waco) and when he accompanies an Icelandic country band called the Funerals on a bleak winter tour of the country.

The book will only be really interesting if you are reading abou...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Jim rated it 2 of 5 stars

A miscellany of bits from interviews with rock stars mainly from the likes of Bo Diddley and Johnny Cash through Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen and Brian Wilson straight through to The White Stripes and Lady Gaga. Something for everyone. There are snippets from interviews with film stars and comedians (Billy Connolly, always a treat) and even something from Timothy Leary. A real mixed bag. Sometimes illuminating but more often these best-of-bits just confirm what we already knew.

This is a hefty b...more

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Aug 10, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't read Rolling Stone and wasn't familiar with this writer, but enjoyed the book a lot. It's a large number of excerpts (sometimes 3 or 4 from the same person) from his interviews with musicians of all types and ages (Loretta Lynn to Jewel, Bo Diddley to the Backstreet Boys.....) and a few on the periphery of the music business, including a poignant conversation with a widowed roadie estranged from his daughter.

Pulls it together at the end with a pithy list of lessons he believes should be...more

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Jul 18, 2011 Porcelain72 rated it 3 of 5 stars

Mostly fascinating though occasionally ponderous collection of interviews by Neil Strauss (yes, the same Neil Strauss who wrote "The Game") with subjects ranging from Lady Gaga to Chuck Berry to Loretta Lynn, and pretty much everyone in between. Though mostly musicians, he also includes a couple of comedians (Russell Brand, Sacha Baron Cohen) and actors (Tom Cruise), as well as interesting nobodies such as David Koresh's first girlfriend. Many of his subjects open up to Strauss in a way that oth...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Tim Niland rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads

This large book compiles interviews Strauss has done with musicians and other famous people over the past twenty years. While it was the music interviews that initially drew me to the book, all of the interviews were actually quite interesting, whether with pop icons or obscure unknown musicians. Strauss is an excellent interviewer, asking provocative and probing questions and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times and elsewhere. It's interesting to hear the inside story behi...more

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Jun 06, 2011 Kirsti rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: anger, arts-and-photography, cake-eaters, eccentricity, hissy-fits, journalism, mayhem, nervous-breakdowns, nonfiction, waah-waaaah-nobody-loves-me

Neil Strauss has interviewed thousands of people, many of them extremely famous. Rather than reprinting some of his best-known pieces, he decided to go back to his original recordings and transcripts and collect only the parts that he felt had the ring of truth about them. Instead of blah-blah designed to promote a project, this book is full of odd, funny, affecting, sometimes embarrassing exchanges.

Here are a few of the more interesting questions he asked.

To Bruce Springsteen: "I hadn't planned...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Tao rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is different from Neil's book in the past. I am used to his writing style where all the stories start with a bang and immediately hooks me.

Everyone Loves you When You're Dead has a slow-paced starts, but gets progressively more interesting and more rewarding as you read.

The structure of the book is very interesting, Neil utilizes "open-loops" very well and end each segment of the interview with an open look that wants you to know what happens next.

Many readers are interested in knowing...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Bruce Levine rated it 5 of 5 stars

One of my favorite books every by one of my favorite authors of all-time. I don't know how he does it but it seems he can compact a ton of information into small enough doses that you can read it for just a few pages and come back to it with no problems hours later. In addition he presents the celebrities and their own personal dilemmas in a high class fashion which does the book justice compared to what other publications like US Weekly, TMZ, and the other gossip outlets do. Within the book Str...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Jonathan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead is nothing like Neil Strauss’ previous works. When you take the time to understand the real intention of this book, you realize that celebrities, no matter how famous, all have their foibles. Strauss doesn’t attempt to glamorize any of the people’s lifestyles he interviews, nor does he vilify them. He simply gives the reader a chance to look at each person as they truly are. Whether it’s beautiful or grotesque is left to the reader’s opinion. The interviews a...more

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Mar 20, 2011 Halco rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's a good thing Neil Strauss had to research all of those survival skills he wrote about in his last book, "Emergency", because some of the things he gets celebrities to reveal about themselves in ELYWYD might force him into hiding for a while. There's more good shit in the first 5 pages of this book than Snoop Dogg has rolled into a fistful of blunts. In ELYWYD, Strauss has basically busted through the veneer of every reconstructed tooth, punctured a hole in every famous breast implant and br...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Bat rated it 5 of 5 stars

Having been familiar with Strauss' previous works, through many of his music articles for Rolling Stone as well as the books he co-wrote with Marilyn Manson, Dave Navarro, and Mötley Crüe, picking up his latest book was a no brainer.

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness is a book of life lessons learned through other people. Strauss returns to the notes and recordings of interviews he's been granted through the course of his career and weaves this book together from...more

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Mar 06, 2011 Jim rated it 5 of 5 stars

Neil Strauss has spent the bulk of his life interviewing musicians and performers for newspapers and magazines like The New York Times and Rolling Stone. He's also written a number of bestselling books, most notably The Dirt, which is about the willfully destructive mayhem machine that is Motley Crue. At first, I thought Everybody Loves You When You're Dead was an anthology of Strauss' best interviews, but its something far more complex than that. It isn't a book of interviews so much as a colle...more Neil Strauss has spent the bulk of his life interviewing musicians and performers for newspapers and magazines like The New York Times and Rolling Stone. He's also written a number of bestselling books, most notably The Dirt, which is about the willfully destructive mayhem machine that is Motley Crue. At first, I thought Everybody Loves You When You're Dead was an anthology of Strauss' best interviews, but its something far more complex than that. It isn't a book of interviews so much as a collection of moments--some hilarious, some poignant--organized to illustrate different themes. Most of the "interviews" run for a page or two and the longer ones are chopped up into shorter sections spread throughout a chapter.

At first, I found this to be extremely off-putting. I thought, who wants to read 500 pages of sound bites, even if some of them are funny or outrageous or thought-provoking? Is this the direction in which pop culture writing is headed? Reality Hunger-esque takes chopped up into easily digestible segments for the Maxim crowd? I was particularly perturbed by the longer interviews chopped up into shorter segments. Did Strauss have so little faith in his readers?

It's easy to see why Strauss has enjoyed so much success. He has a knack for getting his subjects to open up. His questions go a lot deeper than “What are your influences?” and “How long have you been singing/rapping/writing music.” Strauss does his homework and often knows details the artists themselves aren’t aware of (or don’t want to be reminded of) like how many years it’s been since they performed in New York or released a new record.

But this is misleading. The most important thing for a music journalist is access. The larger or more prestigious the publication, the easier it is to get access to your subject. I have some experience with this. As someone who has interviewed at least as many bands for punk rock zines and alternative weeklies as are featured in ELYWYD, I’ve been turned away, screwed over, and lied to by publicists who have never heard of zines like Flipside or Razorcake--problems I never had when I was a freelance radio correspondent for National Public Radio. I’ve done 700-word profiles based on a ten-minute phone conversation and long 15,000-word interviews that lasted all weekend.

It’s easy to say that interviews are a pure form: artists in their own words talking about their own experiences. But this, too, is misleading. The writer asks the question that prompts a response. The writer then gets to cherry pick which responses to use, a little from over here, a little from over there. And then they get to stage manage those responses to express the idea the writer wants to convey. These are all things that good interviewer do. (If you’re ever giving an interview a word of advice: ignore the questions. Say what you want to say, and don’t be baited into talking about things you don’t want to talk about it.) The bad interviewers also mislead, misrepresent, and intentionally make their subject look bad and sound like an idiot.

So considering Strauss’ access the shortness of these interviews seemed very suspicious to me. If you follow anyone around for a day, a week, an entire tour, you’ll capture moments when they sound like a moron and seem like a jerk. In the time Strauss allows, anyone can be made to look like anything. It’s not the least bit fair and why so many musicians and artists have a cantankerous relationship with the press or stop giving interviews altogether.

In spite of all these trepidations, I came to really love ELYWYD. Strauss is not a participatory journalist. He prefers to stay out of the story and let his subjects take center stage. He is particularly adept at getting artists to acknowledge the struggle it took to get where they are, a struggle that often overlaps the present moment. Perhaps, I’m naïve, but I was surprised by the extent to which so many of Strauss’ subjects were willing to elaborate on the nature of their struggle. If that sounds a bit twelve-step-ish, so be it, but I found it inspiring to hear the stories of how these artists and performed overcame their worst instincts in order to become (or sustain) the success they enjoy today. Indeed, Strauss concludes his epic series of interviews with eleven guidelines for living a happy life that he has gleaned from interviewing countless famous people, most of whom were miserable.

And then there’s the story of Paul Nelson. A cautionary tale for every artist who has ever felt his or her work didn’t measure up. Nelson was a zine writer, a music label exec, and a writer for Rolling Stone. Strauss considers him the father of rock and roll criticism. Even David Bowie cites him as an early influence. One day Nelson left the office of Rolling Stone and disappeared. Fifteen years later his body was found in his apartment. He’d been working in a video store. He’d starved himself to death. There’s more to the story, and I won’t give the details here, but Strauss cites it as the hardest story he ever had to write, and it’s one that will stay with me for a long time.
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Jul 20, 2011 Doug rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

A series of interviews, it's interesting to see which celebrities are open and introspective, which ones are more guarded, which ones are just putting on an act, and which ones are just plain batsh*t crazy. What was just as interesting was seeing the metagame in which Strauss gets his subjects to open up, it was surprising how he got so many celebrities talked about their fears, loneliness and depression. It's easy to see how he so easily adopted the Style persona in The Game: Penetrating the Se ...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Godzilla rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, everyone-s-a-critic, life-but-not-as-we-know-it, music, nonfiction

I approached this with a little trepidation, I'd heard about "The Game" by Neil Strauss and it didn't sound like my bag at all.

However the blurb on the back of this mentions all kinds of weirdness eg hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson.

The premise is an interesting one: these are snippets from the multitude of interviews that Mr Strauss has conducted over many years.

He has curtailed these to the moment within an interview, a pause if you like, when something changes in the dynamic of it.

It makes for...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Jan Kjellin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: anthology, based-on-a-true-story, inbunden, nonfiction

Vilken överraskning. Jag tog mig an den här boken med The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band i färskt minne, vilket inte talade till dess fördel. Det var skandalromantik av högsta graden och uppenbarligen (såhär i efterhand) ett resultat av att bandet hade sista ordet i utformningen av boken.

Nåja.

Även här rör sig Neil Strauss i rock n' rollens och underhållningens värld, vilken han ger oss en inblick i genom en lång rad intervjuer som slingrar sig runt och genom varandra i...more Vilken överraskning. Jag tog mig an den här boken med The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band i färskt minne, vilket inte talade till dess fördel. Det var skandalromantik av högsta graden och uppenbarligen (såhär i efterhand) ett resultat av att bandet hade sista ordet i utformningen av boken.

Nåja.

Även här rör sig Neil Strauss i rock n' rollens och underhållningens värld, vilken han ger oss en inblick i genom en lång rad intervjuer som slingrar sig runt och genom varandra i ett antal "akter", där varje akt genomsyras av ett slags tema.

Med utlämnande självdistans berättar han samtidigt anekdotiskt om sin egen karriär som musikskribent och resultatet blir en kombination av ett själsligt sökande efter meningen med livet genom att skärskåda kändisvärlden och deras invånare.

Det är spännande hur min respekt för några av de här "låtsasmänniskorna" höjts betydligt av att ha läst boken, samtidigt som mina fördomar om andra förstås stärkts. Jag förfasas av någons rasism, medan andras fördomsfullhet blir charmig i sin uppenbara naivitet. Jag inser att jag måste ge "Borat" en ny chans, efter intervjun med Sasha Baron Cohen och hans beskrivning av tanken bakom filmen, och roas av beskrivningen av hur Sharon Osbourne hunsar Eminem, sådär i förbifarten - i bakgrunden till en intervju med White Stripes.

Och jag grips av alla de människoöden som passerar i boken. De verkliga människor som finns bakom kändismaskerna. Som är omogna, pubertala, infantila, filosofiska, intelligenta, lidande, lyckliga och helt "vanliga".

Jag tror att man åtminstone behöver ha ett hum om vilka och vad det handlar om för att orka ta sig an boken, men samtidigt dyker det upp människor i boken som jag inte har en aning om vilka de är, eller vad det gjort. Men samtidigt räcker det att veta att hen sysslar med rap eller ståuppkomik eller vad det nu kan vara. För det jag i alla fall vad det är. Så kanske räcker det med ett grundläggande intresse för musik och underhållning ändå?

Jag skriver att intervjuerna slingrar sig runt och genom varandra. Strauss har hittat en bra form för boken, där han nästan intuitivt hoppar mellan intervjuerna, beroende på ämnet som avhandlas. Om någon i en intervju drar en parallell till en annan artist, så bryter Strauss intervjun och hoppar till en intervju med just denne artist, för att någonstans senare i boken återvända till den första intervjun.

Det kan låta hoppigt och hackigt, men det skapar ett flöde som gör att boken liksom rinner fram och att man kan ta en paus när man vill utan att behöva bläddra tillbaka och fråga sig "vad var det jag läste om igår".

Jag är överraskad och imponerad. Och glad att min svärfar (som knappt kände igen ett enda namn) kastade boken på mig i julas. Annars hade jag aldrig läst den.

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Jul 29, 2011 Todd Croak-falen rated it 4 of 5 stars

There's some good stuff in here, despite the crappy artwork. At first, the format did take a little getting used to -- interviews are chopped up and interspersed with each other by topic and interviewee -- but the more I read, the more the structure began to make sense. Everything ties together in a specific way, and it was actually more interesting than reading a series of interviews straight through, one after another.

Standouts: Chris Rock explaining how M.C. Hammer's posse was the most gangst...more There's some good stuff in here, despite the crappy artwork. At first, the format did take a little getting used to -- interviews are chopped up and interspersed with each other by topic and interviewee -- but the more I read, the more the structure began to make sense. Everything ties together in a specific way, and it was actually more interesting than reading a series of interviews straight through, one after another.

Standouts: Chris Rock explaining how M.C. Hammer's posse was the most gangsta of all the rappers. Billy Corgan dealing with the music industry turning its back on the Smashing Pumpkins the instant one of their albums didn't deliver. Hugh Hefner on being a self-made man rather than accepting the hand that life dealt him. Sacha Baron Cohen revealing the undercurrent of racism that still exists in our world, and the apathy that allows it to survive. Lionel Richie's "vacation" that turned into a ten-year disappearance -- for tragic reasons. Chuck Berry discussing the scandals that have scarred his soul. Roger Troutman describing the construction company he started that hires neighborhood youth to build low-income housing.

While I am not a fan of Bon Jovi or Jay Leno, each of them gave self-aware interviews that made me respect them as human beings and understand where they were coming from.

Among the most hilarious moments in the book were: Some gut-busting moments from a band I'd never heard of called The Funerals. A hilarious series of snippets overheard at a rave. Ice-T debating a feminist at a university head-on.

The Game pissed me off with his cop-out that he wasn't making society any worse during the time he sold crack, because if he hadn't done it, somebody else would have. Maybe I should just go out and start robbing and killing people, because if I don't, somebody else will.

And last but certainly not least, the ending. Neil's dissection of Paul Nelson's fate is a scary and amazing thing, one that I won't even try to describe here. Suffice it to say that this and the epilogue really drive home the heart of this book in a very real and powerful way. But don't just skip to the end -- take my advice and read the entire book (even the slow parts near the beginning) and you will take something away from it when you're done.(less)

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May 31, 2012 Evaristo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Neil Strauss, siendo uno de los mejores entrevistadores de quien tenga conocimiento, se acerca a personalidades de distintos ámbitos en un libro que más que recopilar dichas conversaciones entrelaza algunas de las más interesantes en sus momentos más reveladores. No solo nos deja asomarnos a las vidas de sus analizados sino al mismo tiempo a su propia persona y personalidad.

A partir de las charlas con algunos como Marilyn Manson, Chuck Berry, Jay Leno o los intentos fallidos con Pharrell y la n...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Nan rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book! It’s not about celebrities. It’s about the humanness behind the mask of the celebrity and the lessons they learn about life right along with us, (non-celebrities).
The author, Neil Straus, examines decades of all the interviews and extracts from them lessons on how we can learn from them to live a happy, true, fulfilling life. Strauss has met a lot of people, over 3,000 up-close and personal interviews of celebrities and persons of interest. This was such an unusual book of in...more

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Jul 27, 2012 Will rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is a collection of various interviews that Strauss did with rock stars and celebrities.

It's pretty clear that rock stars and celebrities are not always interesting people. Some of them have nothing to say, some of them really don't give a crap about saying anything, and worst of all are the ones with nothing to say, but intent on saying it.

P.J. Harvey is the most interesting one of the bunch, because she's genuinely not interested in anything but music, and suffers the interview like a comm...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Liz rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this collection of interview excerpts from NYT/Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss. Each excerpt was quite brief, so it was easy to fly through the collection. If anything, the book definitely drives home two thoughts: A) most artists and performers are profoundly screwed up B) most artists and performers are profoundly narcissistic.

It seems obvious that Strauss is an exceptional interviewer, but I still think that one of the two qualities above must be responsible for the fact that fam...more

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Mar 21, 2011 Shaun Westphal rated it 5 of 5 stars

I couldn't put it down, and I'll probably read the whole thing again soon. ELYWYD isn't just a compilation of interviews Neil has done over the years, it's bits and pieces (the important bits and pieces) that let you really get inside of the interviewees. The fact that they're all famous almost becomes an afterthought in a lot of cases. It's also cool to see Neil run Game on these people (and a lot of these interviews are from before the Game even existed). It's pretty amazing (this happens ofte...more

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May 15, 2012 Jason Bergman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a weird book. Neil Strauss is a great (albeit extremely manipulative) interviewer, and he speaks to some very, very interesting people. However the book itself, rather than taking those interviews and stitching them together into meaningful and interesting essays, simply presents their comments as question and answer segments. Strauss fills in the blanks with interesting anecdotes and asides, but it's hard shaking the feeling that this is a peek into his research files, rather than a fin...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Sarah Tipper rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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...more

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Jun 18, 2011 Allison rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: spackle-for-the-void, the-bleach-can-stay-on-the-shelf

This fine volume was brought to us by the same champ who brought us The Game, and while I will always find him repugnant for that, he can write, and this book (which I skimmed), like The Game, was highly entertaining and deeply twisted. Oh, celebrities! Oh, culture and human nature that make them possible! Good, frothy fun, with occasional bursts of profundity, and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, as in the copyeditor section, wherein we learn why "scumbags" and the specifics of the sounds that...more

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Mar 25, 2013 Dave rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wanted to dislike this book since I find The Game and Strauss' pickup artist shtick pretty distasteful. But Strauss is an excellent interviewer and this collection of his greatest hits is quite entertaining. He's especially good at getting beyond the standard rock star/celebrity Q&As which are either fawning or boring (e.g., "Tell me about your creative process"). Somehow he manages to capture the more (or sometimes, less) human side of his subjects. And he's not afraid to include his more...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Julia Bennett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

This is a great read for any music fan. It's done in ten acts (instead of chapters), with themes for each act, and feature clips of interviews from Neil Strauss' career over the years with everyone from Marilyn Manson, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears to musicians and music business related folks from all backgrounds. Not every interview is with a celebrity, but all are intriguing. He asks fantastic questions, and keeps good conversation with who he is talking with. The last act, and story of interv...more

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Mar 26, 2012 Lara7 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Short excerpts taken from celebrity interviews that would become profile pieces in Rolling Stone, NYTimes, etc. Interesting to see the parts of writing a piece that usually get subsumed into the whole. It would have been nice to see some of the finished pieces in this same book, but I guess they're easy enough to track down if I was really THAT curious. Other gripe: how hard would it have been to give the year that the interview took place? For someone with a long career (Johnny Cash, Neil Young...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Delight rated it 3 of 5 stars

Do you ever read an interview with a celebrity and wonder about the pieces that are edited out? Strauss, former writer for Rolling Stone and the NYT, has compiled a book with all the juicy bits. I especially loved his list of what he's learned about life from interviewing hundreds of celebrities. Most of the celebrities interviewed come across as incredibly self-centered, immature, stupid, and completely out of touch. You won't believe some of the exchanges. I only wish I was really into music--...more

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Mar 17, 2011 Brent rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love, Love, LOVE this book. Clocking in at just over 500 pages, Everybody Loves You When You're Dead is the most provocative and entertaining anthology you're likely to read this year. Actually, it reimagines what an anthology should be, since instead of simply selecting his best published pieces over the last 20 years, Strauss re-edits and reselects, often choosing never before published interviews and insights. From testing psychic powers with the CIA to shopping for Pampers with Snoop Dogg,...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Stephen Conley rated it 3 of 5 stars

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...more

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