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Shakey by Jimmy McDonough
Shakey by Jimmy McDonough











Shakey by Jimmy McDonough

The book is an accumulation of facts and inquiries and digging in archives and description of major life events (his childhood, his relation with his parents, his love affairs, his unstability in friendship, in health, etc) with interviews of Neil reacting on the bits.he felt like reacting upon. Second half of the book was getting better all the time, maybe because the writer's pen got sharper during the 6 years it took him to finish writing it, maybe because it focused on the part of Neil Young's work I know much better, the songs I love, the decades I've been through, the songs that relate to events that mattered to me - I didn't want the story to stop.Īnd it does, in 2000, leaving me with a sense of curiosity about what Neil is doing today and what was his life in a post 9/11 world - even though the book/Neil (?) is so apolitical I wonder if it would have been mentioned. I then took the book from the shelf again - I'm one of those poor souls who can't let a book then until I get to the last page, whatever the amount of time it tkaes. I put the book down after 300 pages of it and didn't pick it up for 2 years.

Shakey by Jimmy McDonough

This long-awaited, unprecedented story of a rock 'n' roll legend is uniquely told through the interwoven voices of McDonough - biographer, critic, historian, obsessive fan - and the ever-cantankerous (but slyly funny) Young himself.The first part of the book is just plain repetitive, made me feel like I was reading an old newspaper (maybe because it's choke-full of references to CSNY which is not what I wanted to learn about). Shakey (the title refers to one of Young's many aliases) is also the compelling human story of a lonely kid for whom music was the only outlet, a driven yet tortured figure who controlled his epilepsy via 'mind over matter', an oddly passionate model train mogul who, inspired by his own son's struggle with cerebral palsy, became a major activist in the quest to help those with the condition. Shakey is the whole story of Young's incredible life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield the bleary conglomeration of Crazy Horse and the monstrous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to the depths of the Tonight's the Night depravity and the Geffen years and Young's unprecedented nineties 'comeback'. 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. One of the great tales of the rock 'n' roll era' Sunday Times 'One of the most penetrative studies of a rock icon ever written.













Shakey by Jimmy McDonough