PositiveThe Financial Times\"...explains, in detail both exhaustive and fascinating, how Wenner went about defining rock stardom, and how he pursued a form of it himself, turning himself into the social equal of those his magazine covered ... Hagan’s book tells us more about rock stardom than plenty of actual rock biographies, because of its one-step remove from the music, and because Wenner kept every single scrap of paper, no matter how addled with cocaine or vodka he might have been (which was very, a lot of the time), and granted Hagan full co-operation on a book that hardly allows Wenner to emerge as a hero.\
Bob Mehr
PositiveThe GuardianIf one sometimes longs for some critical analysis of the records, there is a sense that Trouble Boys almost doesn’t need it: the love all the interviewees have for Westerberg’s music and the band’s playing is enough to prove their worth.
