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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography |  | Author: Jimmy McDonough
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Rating:  128 reviews
Sales Rank: 16671
Media: Paperback
Pages: 786
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0679750967
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780679750963
ASIN: 0679750967
Publication Date: May 13, 2003
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Amazon.com Review
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
Product Description
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.
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 This is it! March 4, 2010
Peter D. Page (Wickenburg, AZ USA)
Comprehensive and complete. For 'die-hard' Neil Young fans, this is the complete story; uncut, untarnished, unfiltered. Neil Young is one of the essential artists of our time and this book tells HIS story without fluff and flourish. Highly recommended.
Shakey's Great! February 8, 2010
Mark Lavengood
What a monster book - tonight's the night, indeed! Great stuff, well worth it.
Shakin' all over! December 4, 2009
Debbie Miller (Australia)
No review will ever sum up the way this book was written.
Put simply, Jimmy McDonough has his finger on the pulse from start to finish.(well, that is when Neil would let him!).
I've really loved (most of) Neil's music for decades but never knew the man in as much detail as Jimmy gives us.
WOW what a guy! Take that as you like - read the book, it may alter your opinion either way!
Subjective but good November 19, 2009
Jeffrey D. Birney (Portland, OR)
I'll start out by saying, yes, I'm a huge Neil Young fan, and I've often wondered what motivates this guy. He writes some really great songs, but he has also written some buckets of crap. Regardless, he's written a LOT, and I love the majority of his stuff. This book is really for the die-hard fans. If you're a passive Young fan and maybe just like rock bios- forget it, this book delves way too deep. Jimmy McDonough does a tireless job of getting into the nuances and quirks that drive this man. He's obviously a huge fan of Young's, but almost to a fault. He criticizes Young when he see's fit, but his prose is too subjective in many arenas and he blasts too many of Young's contemporaries. I know Stephen Stills was/is an [...], but so is Neil. Mcdonough is also pretty harsh when it comes to Neil's reemergence in the 90's and his "overexposure." Hey man-- he's a rock star, he got another moment in the sun in the late part of his career. How many other 60's bred rockers can claim that? My only other complaint is that Jimmy should have waited another 10 years to write this book. so much has happened in Neil's career since 1998- CSNY reunited, the overproduced flop "Greendale" (went to that show-- ugh,) and the best album Neil's done in over 10 years: "Prairie Wind."
Overall though, this is a well-written imformative bio of a driven, creative, and compassionate human being. The sections that engage Neil's son Ben put Neil Young in an entirely new light for me. If you're a HUGE Neil Young fan... well, you've probably already read it...
Learned so much about Neil but...... October 1, 2009
P. Moccia (NYC)
Awesome read! Learned so much about Neil that I did not know but, thank God that I had already bought most of Neil's CD collection before I read the book, or I probably wouldn't have bought half the CD's I did. I know that the author didn't want to come across like a fan and praise everything that Neil did, but he practically bashed every piece of music Neil put out. Some of the author's opinions about CD's that I love had me scratching my head.
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