Everyone Loves You When You're Dead : journeys into fame and madness

Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead is an hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss, the bestselling author of The Game and The Dirt. Strauss has been a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times, giving him access to a wide variety of major celebrities.

In this book he:

• makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail and gets kidnapped by Courtney Love.
• shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young and goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother.
• spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears and finds religion with Stephen Colbert.
• gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia and serenaded by Leonard Cohen.
• goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani and hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson.
• talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash and sex with Chuck Berry.
• gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince and in bed with … you’ll find out who inside.

In Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead Strauss offers 120 of those singular, hit-you-in-the-guts, perception-altering interviews, as only he can. This is cultural journalism at its most entertaining and rock journalism at its most revealing.

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Neil Strauss on The Kyle and Jackie O Show

Praise for Everyone Loves You When You're Dead:

This collection of the best of his celebrity interviews is a fascinating glimpse into the music industry’s dark side.

NW

Former Rolling Stone and New York Times scribe Neil Strauss has chinwagged with rock royalty. This collection of 120 interviews includes a session in a hot tub with Marilyn Mason.

Adelaide Advertiser

All the big names are here – Britney Spears, Neil Young, Lady Gaga – and not as you’ve heard about them before. In Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, Neil Strauss offers 120 ‘'hit-you-in-the-guts, perception-altering’‘ interviews that will change your opinions of celebrities forever.

Hobart Mercury

A kind of epic mix-tape, a stream of rock-star consciousness … A weirdly compelling book.

Sunday Age