Book review - "Moby - replay"

Biography of the performer which was published after the success of "Play", so it doesn't cover his recent albums. It is really excellent, though, with plenty of interviews with its subject matter and analysis of the music scene and how Moby fitted in and his tracks. Moby was turning out stuff a decade before Play - in fact, something I didn't realise, his first single was his biggest hit until Play, "Go", a sample from Twin Peaks which I must have danced to at Fridays back in the day. I first became really aware of his music when Michael Mann used some tracks in Heat and Moby has proved incredibly popular with soundtracks - not just movies, but TV and ads. His flogging of his music for commercial use has earned him a lot of flak in the music community but from reading this it seems that Moby is often getting flak form the community and he has learned to live with it - maybe he even thrives on it (many artists do). The book isn't totally pro-Moby: it points out he often changes his mind when it comes to those silly statements about the world, universe and everything he makes, he can be a hypocrite and a bit of a lecherous wanker (hey, what famous person isn't?). But immensely talented. My favourite story: clean living Moby went on tour with party boys the Prodigy and they had to share the bus and Moby came along and asked them to keep the noise down.