Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679750967 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 786 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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
Young is not quite the noble soul some thought--he's an astounding control freak. Just like a f-----' vampire. But he is never less than fascinating. 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,
Kelly K. Patterson said Shakey is Rock Solid. The author apparently made a long (physically as well as intellectually) strange trip to write this biography of the quirky rock legend neil Young but the trip has ended in a rock solid and fascinating look at an elusive rocker.Neil Young fans know that once you are hooked on his music, you will roll with him through the all the changes an. Forever Young C.D. Sihner I read this book mostly to discover how this guy keeps creating successfully after all these years when virtually all his peersin rock have 'burned out or faded away'. Cobain checked out cause he lost the passion. Many older rock stars still tour, but they have no new material. Neil's new album should be titled 'Are you still passionate li. Great insightful reading for any Neil fan It's been quite some time since I tore through a book like I did Jimmy McDonough's "Shakey: Neil Young's Biography." This is almost everything a Neil fan could hope for: almost 800 pages of prose on one of rock and roll's most enigmatic artists. Although the book starts off a little slow and perhaps spends a bit too much time on Neil's chi