"Shakey: Neil Young's Biography," by Jimmy McDonough is ... Yet, as I dug into it, it gradually won me over because it's as good a book (albeit a portly one) as I've ever read about how an artist ...

That makes the subtitle of the book, “Neil Young’s Biography,” all the more accurate. The title itself is taken from the name Bernard Shakey that Young has used as a kind of alias.

But the thing which really sets this book apart from Shakey — or any other Neil Young book for that matter — are the pictures. In boasting that it is the first fully illustrated Neil Young ...

As Neil Young clears out his archives, avid followers are forced to reach between the cushions of their couches, or perhaps even take out a second mortgage, in order to afford Shakey’s essential ...