![]() ![]() There's plenty not to like about Young in this biography. ![]() ![]() He's not just talking about the band's set list, he's talking about the lighting guys, the sound guys - every single list in the building." Young's longtime cohort and producer, the late David Briggs, said, "It's not fun at all working for Neil - fun's not part of the deal - but it's very fulfilling." "Neil's come to me," Sterne tells McDonough, "and said, 'Go get all the set lists and throw 'em in the trash can' - and he said this to me fifteen minutes before the show. Tour manager Bob Sterne should get a bucketful of those medals. What Young does share with those two, however, is icon status, and after reading McDonough's staggeringly thorough examination of the arch-rocker's life and work, you're convinced he's earned it - while the people who've orbited around him during his long and tempestuous career all deserve Purple Hearts, several dozen of them each, and a nice quiet place to spend their sunset years. At 786 pages it's longer than "Mandela: The Authorized Biography," by Anthony Simpson or "Mao: A Life," by Philip Short, but then neither Mandela nor Mao played guitar worth a damn. "Shakey: Neil Young's Biography," by Jimmy McDonough is a bruiser. ![]()
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