Fool The World - The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
Reviewed by Brian Johnston via 
on 07 Oct 2008
Received as a gift, I look forward immediately to devouring this book as an avid Pixies fan. With the exception of a foreward written by the former Pixies British tour manager, it is completely written in anecdotal form, with direct quotations from an array of contributors, including the band members. Despite being published in 2005, it's relevance is undiminished as it comprehensively covers the history of the group.
The authors (Josh Frank and Caryn Ganz) come with qualified CVs, as a playwright and deputy editor of RollingStone.com respectively, so I was expecting an impressive read. In parts it succeeded, as there were many nuggets of information and trivia I was unaware of. However, I felt the book let itself down in editing (or lack of) as some contributions were either biased or factually incorrect, or both. For example, the makers of a recent Pixies documentary state that Kim Deal was 23 when the Pixies broke up originally in '92 (she was in fact in her thirties), and inexplicably make completely wrong assessments of the post-Pixie output.
In summary, this book is often brilliant, yet at other times really frustrating. The definitive Pixies story is still to be told...
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