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Blue Rider Press
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 0399159460
EAN: 9780399159466
Kindle: B0095ZRZTU
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and
guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his
personal life and musical creativity. He tells of his
childhood in Ontario, where his father instilled in him a
love for the written word; his first brush with mortality
when he contracted polio at the age of five; struggling to
pay rent during his early days with the Squires; traveling
the Canadian prairies in Mort, his 1948 Buick hearse;
performing in a remote town as a polar bear prowled beneath
the floorboards; leaving Canada on a whim in 1966 to pursue
his musical dreams in the pot-filled boulevards and communal
canyons of Los Angeles; the brief but influential life of
Buffalo Springfield, which formed almost immediately after
his arrival in California. He recounts their rapid rise to fame and ultimate break-up;
going solo and overcoming his fear of singing alone; forming
Crazy Horse and writing “Cinnamon Girl,” “Cowgirl in the
Sand,” and “Down by the River” in one day while sick with
the flu; joining Crosby, Stills & Nash, recording the
landmark CSNY album, Déjà vu, and writing the song, “Ohio;”
life at his secluded ranch in the redwoods of Northern
California and the pot-filled jam sessions there; falling in
love with his wife, Pegi, and the birth of his three
children; and finally, finding the contemplative paradise of
Hawaii. Astoundingly candid, witty, and as uncompromising
and true as his music, Waging Heavy Peace is Neil Young’s
journey as only he can tell it.
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