Shakey: Neil Young's Biography - Hardcover

McDonough, Jimmy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679427724 ISBN 13: 9780679427728

Publisher: Villard Books, 2002

Synopsis

A detailed chronicle of the enigmatic music performer reveals his lonely childhood, struggle with epilepsy, role as a father to a child with cerebral palsy, efforts as an awareness advocate, and achievements as a musician and band member. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

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)

Book Description:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Villard Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679427724
• ISBN 13: 9780679427728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 786