A good book enthralls you with it's story, while a great book truly inspires you.SHAKEY is a great book, It delves so deep into Neil Young's persona that you truly believe you know him like you know yourself. 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. Jimmy McDonough does an amazing job going through the ups and downs of a very complicated and unpredictable artist. 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. Neil Young is one of rock and rolls most important, influential and enigma. 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'. Read 264 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. 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.
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