What Else Is in the Teaches of Peaches

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"Peaches is ferocious, relentless, sexy, confident, and gives all of herself to her audience. . . . She is a person who inspires. --Ellen Page, actress, from the introduction Peaches is an incredible artist. . . . Thank you, Peaches, for adding a long and exciting life to performance art. --Yoko Ono, musician, from the forewordThis volume presents a mesmerizing collection of Holger Talinski's evocative and sometimes erotic photos of transgressive musical icon Peaches, on and off stage, with accompanying text by Peaches, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Yoko Ono, and the actress Ellen Page, best known for her lead role in the film Juno, which garnered her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.Peaches, a legendary live performer and revolutionary figure in electronic music, has released four studio albums, beginning with her 2000 debut The Teaches of Peaches, which featured the hit single Fuck the Pain Away. She has co-written songs with Christina Aguilera and P!nk, among others, was prominently featured on R.E.M.'s final studio album, Collapse into Now, as well as the Flaming Lips' cover version of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. She also received wide critical acclaim for her one-woman performance of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar (rechristened as Peaches Christ Superstar ). In 2012, Peaches released her debut feature film, Peaches Does Herself, to worldwide critical acclaim. That same year, she took the stage as the titular character in a production of L'Orfeo, Monteverdi's 1607 opera. She is currently at work on her fifth full-length studio album.Holger Talinski is a Berlin-based photographer focusing on portrait and documentary photography. He has worked in Thailand and India where his photographs have been used to accompany the Mahler Chamber Orchestra." --Publisher description.