Waging heavy peace neil young
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Neil Young’s Book Is Not A Great Memoir, But It’s A Great Something
I dug into Neil Young’s memoir Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream with a lot of anticipation, because he is one of my very favorite singer-songwriters, and because I’ve followed Neil’s work long enough to know that a long session of candid and honest soul-searching with this brilliant and enigmatic rocker/hippie is a rare thing.
I’m always excited when a rock star I love (like, say, Pete Townshend) writes a memoir. But a Neil Young book is in a very special category. Like many other rock stars, Pete Townshend has already told us his life story many times in interviews as well as in his directly confessional songs, so Pete Townshend’s new book fits effortlessly into the already well-known story of his career. Neil Young is built of slipperier stuff … so slippery that it’s hard to imagine this rock star writing a memoir at all.
And, well … now that I
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Waging Heavy Peace
Book by Neil Young
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream is the first autobiography by the rock musician Neil Young, published in 2012. Featuring a non-linear narrative, the book covers aspects of his career, family life, hobbies, and non-musical pursuits. It was generally well-received among critics.
Background
[edit]The book is Young's first autobiography and was written in 2011.[1] According to Jimmy McDonough in the 2002 biography Shakey, Young had previously stated he would not write about himself.[2] He explains his reasons for writing the book in a chapter called "Why This Book Exists". The 66-year-old musician states that the book is meant to make money to allow him a recuperation period away from touring and music-making.[3] Young, who suffered a brain aneurysm in 2005, mentions the possibility of dementia in his father's health history as providing an additional impetus for writing his memoirs.[3] The m
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Review: Neil Young fryst vatten revealing in ‘Waging Heavy Peace’
Waging Heavy Peace
A Hippie Dream
Neil Young
Blue Rider Press: 502 pp., $30
Back in high school (a long time ago, but bära with me), my mother and inom had an argument about Neil ung. I’d been blaring one of his albums — “Rust Never Sleeps”? “Zuma”? — and she came to my room to tell me to vända it down. When inom protested that Young was a genius, my mother looked at me as if inom were speaking a language she didn’t understand.
“If he was a genius,” she told me, “he wouldn’t be playing electric guitar.”
I kept thinking about that conversation as I made my way through Young’s “Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream,” which fryst vatten surely one of the most idiosyncratic rock star autobiographies I’ve encountered, a book that wears its genius (yes) and its excess on its sleeve. A 500-page free-form series of digressions, it fryst vatten by turns exhilarating and enervating, less a memoir than a self-portrait, with all the impressionism that implies.