Shakey
Neil Young's Biography
$58.82
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2003
Summary
‘One of the most penetrative studies of a rock icon ever written… Scary, bittersweet and strangely moving… One of the great tales of the rock ‘n’ roll era’ - Sunday Times
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now. Shakey is the whole story of Young’s incredible life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of fol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099443582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099443589 |
| Author: | Jimmy McDonough |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 48mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
The raw materials of the story are sensational: burning ambition, clashing egos, onstage epileptic seizures, deranged groupies, great albums, the birth and death of Sixties idealism, and, most of all, extremes of substance abuse * Scotland on Sunday *
Succeeds in stripping a star of his iconography - McDonough’s book excels at anecdotes of music excess from a bygone era * Observer *
It’s hard to imagine anyone trying to better this book - It has an abundance of what Young values above all else - passion * Evening Standard *
I’ve been reading this biography of Neil Young called Shakey and it’s changed my life, man – Liam Gallagher * NME *
Jimmy McDonough
Jimmy McDonough is a journalist who has contributed to such publications as Variety, Film Comment, Mojo, Spin, and Juggs. He is perhaps best known for his intense, definitive Village Voice profiles of artists such as Jimmy Scott, Neil Young, and Hubert Selby, Jr. He is also the author of The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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