Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
by Jimmy McDonough
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Author: Jimmy McDonoughEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-13
ISBN: 0679750967
Number of pages: 786
Publisher: Anchor
Summary of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Neil Young is one of rock and roll?s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life ? until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young?s associates, and on more than fifty hours of interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a fascinating, prodigious account of the singer?s life and career. Jimmy McDonough follows Young from his childhood in Canada to his cofounding of Buffalo Springfield to the huge success of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to his comeback in the nineties. Filled with never-before-published words directly from the artist himself, Shakey is an essential addition to the top shelf of rock biographies.Cantankerous and secretive, Neil Young has banished authors from his inner sanctum--until now. In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough distills more than 300 interviews (including guarded yet revealing interrogations of Young himself) into the definitive biography: the skyrocket success, willful disasters, health horrors and triumphs, stunning comebacks, and highly colorful scuffles with equally impossible characters like Stephen Stills, David Crosby, and the incompetent yet brilliant musicians of Crazy Horse. Young is not quite the noble soul some thought--he's an astounding control freak. But he is never less than fascinating. "As ruthless as I may seem to be," Young tells McDonough, "you gotta do what ya gotta do. Just like a f-----' vampire. Heh heh heh." --Tim Appelo
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