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Product Description These audio biographies chart the lives and work of some of rock's most memorable acts, from their early days to their rise to fame. Each CD includes comments and interview material by the artist and is accompanied by an eight-page illustrated booklet and foldout poster. From the Publisher All our range of Maximum titles feature indepth newly researched biographical information and interview clips. Packaged in attractive jew-case with free mini poster. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. When the impetus for Limp Bizkit was hatched, Fred Durst was an untrained artist and frustrated music fan living in the sleepy college town of Jacksonville, Florida. Like many artists, Durst made his living in a field not directly related to his favourite type of art in this case tattooing. As one of Jacksonville's leading tattoo artists, Durst was forced to adorn people's bodies with whatever their heart's desired, which was usually hearts, devils or names of loved ones. To this day, all three of these icons have retained particular significance to Durst and Limp Bizkit, reminding him of his days in the tattoo parlours before fame and fortune swept him away. Durst grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina, where he described himself as an "academic whiz." As a white person, he was a minority at his mostly African-American elementary school, and being exposed to this new culture piqued Durst's interest in hip-hop music. He soon began listening to hip-hop pioneers like the Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Caz and the Treacherous Three. By the time he reached high school, he was a veritable b-boy, dressing in the latest hip-hop fashions, from baggy jeans to shell-toed Adidas without shoelaces, a la Run-DMC. While Durst now says he was popular with many of his fellow students, many mates who were unable to reconcile the white kid that was constantly listening to black music, ostracised him. After graduating from high school, D