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.
關於作者:
Jimmy McDonough is a journalist who has contributed to such
publications as Variety, Film Comment, Mojo, Spin, and Juggs. But
he is perhaps best known for his intense, definitive Village Voice
profiles of such artists as Jimmy Scott, Neil Young, and Hubert
Selby, Jr. Jimmy is also the author of The Ghastly One: The
Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan. He lives in the
Pacific Northwest.