traces a rich turbulent career in vivid detail." - The New York Times "Imaginatively written.not only is Shakey an extraordinary literary feat of research and affection and endurance, it's an insight into the art of biography itself."- Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Delves further into the life and motives of one of music's most private individuals than anything previously released. One of the most penetrative studies of a rock icon ever written." - Times (London) "A mammoth portrait of the artist and lively exhumation of rock n roll history. there are revelations in abundance." - The New York Times Book Review "Where the average rock-star biography is a tepid, toothless thing, McDonough has approached his task like a literary Terminator, steaming ahead with lethal thoroughness. McDonough gets it all: the chaos, the grandeur, the good times and dreary deaths, the alcohol- and drug-besotted recording sessions, the broken hearts, and the sheer unfettered joy of a seriously gifted artist." - Salon "The definitive book on the subject." - The Washington Post "Exhaustive, quarrelsome, and sometimes maddening. A must-read for anyone who cares about Neil Young." - Rolling Stone "Staggeringly thorough. A glorious mess." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "An exhilarating match-up of author and subject makes Shakey a great, gripping read. A maddening, beguiling portrait of an elusive maverick.
Hugely original." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Just as unmanageable, hard-headed, overzealous, and ultimately endearing as Young himself. "Jimmy McDonough's fat, teeming, obsessive, and revelatory biography of Young is a pure shot of all-access pleasure. Filled with never-before-published words directly from the artist himself, Shakey is an essential addition to the top shelf of rock biographies. 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. 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. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life - until now. of photos.īook Synopsis 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. About the Book The long-awaited, exhaustive and controversial biography of one of rock 'n roll's towering figures is filled with direct, never-before-published words from Neil Young himself.
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