Beware the book in whose title lurks the words "official" or "authorized." They usually sound the death knell of anything that might be interesting in a band's story. Those two simple words mean that anything negative about a band is going to be far outweighed by undeserved plaudits and revisionist history.
Robert Matheu's The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story is just that sort of book. Any book that devotes three pages to describing the Stooges' reunion album The Weirdness i
