Waging Heavy Peace

Neil Young—reflective, introspective, insightful, brutally honest—discusses his life and career. From his youth in Canada (where his father was a well-known journalist) to his first band's travels across the U.S. seeking fame (and girls), to his forming of the Buffalo Springfield, his massively successful solo career highlighted by After the Gold Rush, to his joining with Crosby, Stills & Nash, to his roll as one of the last uncompromised (and uncompromising) survivors of rock 'n' roll—this is Neil's tale. Told episodically, with great detail, and intermingling his current obsessions with musical sound quality and the environment with his recollections of the way things were, this is a memoir that will stand beside those of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards as exemplar of the genre.