"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.