![]() "Something clicked" between them, McDonough says, and Young later asked him to write some liner notes for an upcoming album. "I vowed then that I was going to meet this man."Īnd so he did, years later when he interviewed Young for The Village Voice. "They inspired me to explore art," he says. The author was a huge fan from his early youth, when he was exposed to Young via the mid-'70s albums On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, and Zuma. "Whatever happens around the guy, you can't count on it continuing," McDonough says. Young's enigmatic, mercurial and sometimes-destructive nature is the main theme of this book of more than 800 pages. ![]() "If you know the cat," he tells Scott Simon for Weekend Edition Saturday, "the nickname fits… nothing is too solid about the guy." "His camera was none too steady," says Jimmy McDonough, who used the nickname as the title of his new biography of the rock and roll icon. "Shakey" was a nickname Neil Young's pals gave him after they watched some home movies he had made. ![]() ![]() Jimmy McDonough's authorized biography of Neil Young. ![]()
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