Neil Young : Waging Heavy Peace
If you've read Bob Dylan's "Chronicles" auto-biography, then you pretty much know what to expect with Neil Young's "Waging Heavy Peace". It's an autobiography that's as eccentric and unpredictable as Young's music. In the space of 500+ pages, he meanders between music, cars, model railways, family, recorded sound quality, his past, the musicians and producers he's worked with, his houses and his relationship with the countryside around them, all in a scatter-gun approach that means you never know quite which direction or which moment in time he's going to be writing about next. Now all of this sounds very confusing, but once you've immersed yourself in Young's book for a while, it all starts to make a kind of rickety sense. I'm a fan of the guy, so the insight the book gives into his thought processes and how he goes about making his music is fascinating. So the book is every bit as eccentric as his musical output, but just as immersive and tantalising..