The Pixies Were A Shock To The System. Emerging From Their First Rehearsal Held In A Squalid Boston Basement, They Were Soon The Toast Of The UK And Europe - The New Saviours Of Rock 'N' Roll. Forerunners Of Grunge And With A Repertoire Of Seriously Weird Songs, They Made A Virtue Out Of Eccentricity. Then, When Mega-Stardom Threatened, Pixies' Songwriter And Singer, Charles Thompson A.k.a Black Francis Ditched The Band, Re-Christened Himself Frank Black And Insisted He Hated The Group - Until Deciding To Reform It For A Sell Out Tour In 2004. This Definitive Biography Of The Legendary Group Also Examines How Charles Thompson's Music Forever Changed The Lives Of Pixies Fans.