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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Shakey: Neil Young's Biographyby: Jimmy Mcdonough  List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.21 You Save: $5.74 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092 EAN: 9780679750963 ISBN: 0679750967 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 816 Publication Date: May 13, 2003 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: May 13, 2003 Studio: Anchor Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The REAL Neil.If you wonder why this book seems to stop on a dime, it's because Neil had the opportunity to review a first draft. Jimmy McDonough was an insider. He was granted insiders' access. He accepted it, did what any reputable journalist would do, and reported on what he'd found. Then Neil saw a first draft of the book. He didn't like it. He cut off access. Neil Young is one of my all-time favorite performers. As a human being, if 50% of what Jimmy McDonough documents ... Read More Rating: - Love itThis book gave me a deep appreciation of Neil that makes him even more so my musical hero. Jimmy M does a great job, I highly recommend this book! Rating: - Excellent Bio. Not your typical bioThis is a well researched book that goes into detail about Neil Young's life and music. I agree with some of the other reviewer's complaints that the author injected himself way too much towards the end of the both, becoming a character in the story. But that didn't really bother me. This book is worth reading because it's one of the few rock bios that really takes you inside of the creative process of making records. I felt like I was really in the studio with Neil and the Horse as they were recording ... Read More Rating:  - Wish I could rate it higherI have given this book three stars, but here's how it could have gotten to five stars; start by eliminating all of the author's opinions, viewpoints, portions of his parts of discussions, etc. Then you could also remove all of the extensive opinions of the couple of fans that he has developed friendships with. What remains would have been of manageable length and it would have contained all the good parts of the book. In other words, it would have been "really innaresting, heh, heh, heh"(to coin an over ... Read More Rating: - Bernard Shakey exposed . . .This biography of a brilliant control freak with an inexorable sense of his own destiny is certainly well researched, the writing style a little bumpy, yet lively, and the narrative flow easy on the reader. Getting as much as he could out of his gregarious loner subject, it has to be acknowledged that Jimmy McDonough's job was mostly uphill. Young did after all greenlight this book, although it was accompanied with a shrug. McDonough does capture the core and nuances of his subject pretty well, ... Read More 
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