![]() ![]() During his school years, Neil Young once clobbered a bully with a dictionary. In Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, McDonough’s exhaustive, and exhausting, biography of the rock legend, McDonough comes across as so self-indulgent, so desperate to impress the reader, that he almost completely loses track of what he’s here to do: to write a frickin’ biography. An exchange between Neil Young and the author, Jimmy McDonoughĪfter reading Jimmy McDonough’s new biography of Neil Young, you emerge from the experience having learned two things: that Neil Young is an enigma, and that Jimmy McDonough blew a chance to write a good book. “You know what? You would feel so bad that for the next six years you wouldn’t even tell anybody - but this dog motif would appear in fifty songs.” “Type of guy you think I am, you probably think I’ll run over that dog and get a new one.” ![]()
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