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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy McDonough (Paperback, 2003)

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By Jimmy McDonough. He is also the author of The Ghastly One- The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan. Succeeds in stripping a star of his iconography - McDonough's book excels at anecdotes of music excess from a bygone era Observer .

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'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 Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic fignres, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sancturn -until now. SHAKEY is the whole story of Young's incredible life and career- from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Bnffalo 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'.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.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.