In the second edition of our Famous Monsters series (with Lindsay's mic still haunted by the ghost of Charles Manson) we do a deep Devo dive into the art-rock band responsible for the 80s megahit "Whip It." Forged in the wake of the Kent State massacre, Devo weirded out audiences for years before their biggest success was inspired by Roy Orbison, Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, and the drummer for Captain Beefheart. For their next album, however, Devo would find their strangest collaborator yet—would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley. 

Additional sources: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/de-evolution_devo_talks_groupies_the_gop_and_the_future
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/16/33-13-devo-excerpt/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43p97n/devo-mark-mothersbaugh-gerald-casale-anniversary-interview-2018
https://www.spin.com/2010/07/secret-history-devo/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-sixties-idealists-or-nazis-and-clowns-119053/

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