Most Popular Books by neil Young

An iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Young has written his eagerly awaited memoir and offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical career.

The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young''s New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has fashioned another extraordinary work of reminiscences told through the lens of one of his deepest passions: cars. A lifelong devotee and collector, Young explores his love for the well-crafted vintage automobile and examines his newfound awareness of his hobby’s negative environmental impact. Witty, eclectic, candid, and filled with Young’s original artwork, Special Deluxe will appeal to car lovers as well as the legions devoted to one of the most genuine and enigmatic artists of our time.

Lenda do rock e do folk, criador do Buffalo Springfield, líder da banda Crazy Horse, parceiro de Crosby, Nash e Stills, um dos maiores guitarristas de todos os tempos e um dos músicos mais influentes de sua geração. Ao longo do último meio século, o cantor e compositor Neil Young construiu uma carreira de sólido sucesso nos Estados Unidos e no resto do planeta. O recente lançamento mundial de Neil Young – A autobiografia, no entanto, revela uma personalidade multifacetada – para muito além do que os fãs de sua música poderiam imaginar. Colecionador de automóveis e especialista em modelismo ferroviário (é dono de uma empresa do ramo), há anos Young investe e trabalha num projeto de carro elétrico. Não qualquer carro, mas o chamado Lincvolt, um gigantesco Lincoln Continental movido a energia renovável e limpa (Young sonha em ser sustentável sem prejuízo para a paixão americana por carrões). O compositor também desenvolve, às próprias custas, a PureTone, alternativa digital à tecnologia dos MP3, capaz de distribuir música online e de proporcionar para o consumidor final um som com qualidade similar à dos discos de vinil. Young escreveu de próprio punho uma narrativa fragmentada, com o vai e vem aleatório das recordações determinando a ordem em que as histórias são apresentadas. É por meio desses flashes do passado, e por constantes divagações do autor acerca do presente e do futuro, que o leitor toma contato com essa impressionante diversidade de interesses do artista. Da mesma maneira, episódios marcantes vêm à tona fora de ordem cronológica, exclusivamente ao sabor da inspiração do momento. Os parceiros na música, as grandes amizades, os amores, a paixão pela esposa Pegi e pelos filhos Zeke, Ben e Amber, entre muitos outros temas, vão surgindo conforme avança o fluxo da memória do autor. Como um pungente solo de guitarra de Neil Young, sua autobiografia parece nos envolver e nos transportar para um outro lugar, um outro tempo – o tempo do sonho hippie de paz, amor e rock''n''roll.

Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music—all music—the way it was meant to be heard. Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed to a fraction of its original sound,while analog masterpieces are turning to dustin record company vaults. As these record-ings disappear, music fans aren''t just losing acollection of notes. We''re losing spaciousness,breadth of the sound field, and the ability tohear and feel a ping of a triangle or a pluckof a guitar string, each with its own reso-nance and harmonics that slowly trail off intosilence. The result is music that is robbed of its original quality—muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists hear in the studio. It doesn''t have to be this way, but the record and technology companies have incorrectly assumed that most listeners are satisfied with these low-quality tracks. Neil Young is challenging the assault on audio quality—and working to free music lovers from the flat and lifeless status quo. To Feel the Music is the true story of his questto bring high-quality audio back to musiclovers—the most important undertaking ofhis career. It''s an unprecedented look insidethe successes and setbacks of creating thePono player, the fights and negotiationswith record companies to preserve master-pieces for the future, and Neil''s unrelentingdetermination to make musical art availableto everyone. It''s a story that shows how muchmore there is to music than meets the ear. Neil''s efforts to bring quality audio to his fans garnered media attention when his Kickstarter campaign for his Pono player—a revolutionary music player that would combine the highest quality possible with the portability, simplicity and affordability modern listeners crave—became the third-most successful Kickstarter campaign in the website''s history. It had raised more than $6M in pledges in 40 days. Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, Neil still had a long road ahead, and his Pono music player would not have the commercial success he''d imagined. But he remained committed to his mission, and faced with the rise of streaming services that used even lower quality audio, he was determined to rise to the challenge. An eye-opening read for all fans of Neil Young and all fans of great music, as well as readers interesting in going behind the scenes of product creation, To Feel the Music has an inspiring story at its heart: One determined artist with a groundbreaking vision and the absolute refusal to give up, despite setbacks, naysayers, and skeptics.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). The long-awaited Neil Young - Harvest folio has arrived -- and it''s certainly worth the wait! This deluxe volume features spot-on transcriptions in notes and tab for all the songs from this seminal 1972 release with color photos, handwritten lyrics, and lots more! Songs include: Alabama * Are You Ready for the Country? * Harvest * Heart of Gold * A Man Needs a Maid * The Needle and the Damage Done * Old Man * Out on the Weekend * There''s a World * and Words (Between the Lines of Age).

(Strum & Sing Guitar). This fantastic collection offers just the guitar chords and the lyrics for 16 Neil Young classics! Includes: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * Ohio * Old Man * Rockin'' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Never content to rest on his laurels, iconic singer/songwriter Neil Young has constantly and successfully reinvented himself, always producing true and sincere music. This incredible collection assembles 16 hits he penned from 1969 to 1991, which are now classic anthems: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Cowgirl in the Sand * Down by the River * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Like a Hurricane * Ohio * Old Man * Only Love Can Break Your Heart * Rockin'' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more. The book also features full-color drawings and collages throughout. A must for every Neil Young fan!

The deluxe eBook edition of Waging Heavy Peace includes excerpts of more than fifteen Neil Young songs (personally selected by Young himself) such as "After the Gold Rush," "Like a Hurricane," and "The Needle and the Damage Done," providing a soundtrack to his stories. Interspersed throughout the text are ten rare Young videos from his own archives, offering an uncommon behind the scenes glimpse of the man behind this memoir. In addition, a complete discography guarantees that diehard devotees and new fans alike enjoy the ultimate Neil Young experience. 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.

(Guitar Solo). This fantastic collection offers fingerpicking arrangements in notes & tab for 16 Neil Young classics! Includes: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * Ohio * Old Man * Rockin'' in the Free World * Southern Man * and more, plus a helpful introduction to fingerstyle guitar and loads of photos, design pages, and lyric sheets.

(Guitar Chord Songbook). 35 songs from the boxed set, originally released as three albums in 1977, with just the lyrics and chords so you can strum and sing along. Titles include: After the Gold Rush * Cinnamon Girl * Down by the River * Harvest * Heart of Gold * Like a Hurricane * Long May You Run * Mr. Soul * Ohio * Old Man * Southern Man * Tonight''s the Night * and more.

This first collection of poems by Neil Young spans several years of writing. Carefully selected by the author, each poem moves subtly to the next. He writes about art, architecture, music, nature, war and death. Here you will find the sonnet, tercet, tritina, haiku, tanka and villanelle, along with other poetic forms. The language is rich and concise, a contrast of light and shade, the ancient and modern.

(Deluxe Guitar Play-Along). The Deluxe Guitar Play-Along series will help you play songs faster than ever before with accurate, easy-to-read guitar tab and professional, customizable play-along audio for 15 songs. The interactive, online tab and audio interface includes tempo/pitch control, looping, buttons to turn instruments on or off, and guitar tab with follow-along marker. The tracks can be streamed or downloaded and played offline. This volume features 15 favorites: Cinnamon Girl * Comes a Time * Cowgirl in the Sand * Down by the River * Harvest Moon * Heart of Gold * Helpless * Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) * Like a Hurricane * The Needle and the Damage Done * Ohio * Old Man * Only Love Can Break Your Heart * Rockin'' in the Free World * Southern Man.

(Guitar Book). 35 songs in guitar tab from Neil Young''s 1977 Decade three-album set. Includes: After the Gold Rush * Broken Arrow * Cinnamon Girl * Down to the Wire * Harvest * Heart of Gold * I Believe in You * Long May You Run * The Old Laughing Lady * Sugar Mountain * Tired Eyes * Walk On * and many more.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The All Music Guide calls Neil Young''s 2009 CD an "album-length motor manifesto," complete with commentary about the economy and downsizing. Our matching folio includes all ten tunes: Cough Up the Bucks * Fork in the Road * Fuel Line * Get Behind the Wheel * Hit the Road * Johnny Magic * Just Singing a Song * Light a Candle * Off the Road * When Worlds Collide.

One season they were a bunch of blokes, drinking and cheering their way through six-a-side soccer; the next season they were all fathers or expectant fathers playing as Fertile FC and going home straight after the game to nurse mother and child. United in a desire not to come last, this assortment of men now found themselves united in something much bigger the challenging transition into fatherhood. Recounted in engaging, self-depreciating voices, the men write openly and honestly of the excitement, worries, hopes and fears that come with the looming responsibility of becoming a good team player in a completely new team. They found themselves in a range of contemporary family constellations and birthing experiences. There is a young first-timer, one 48-year-old first-time father, one father having his second child, one with a step-child, and one dad already with children to a different partner. They recount natural home, water and hospital births, a birthing centre birth, a breech and caesareans. Each chapter is one man s narrative about how he met his partner and contributed to the pregnancy and birth of their child; and what it was like afterwards. The only experts here are the actual men who went through it. Running alongside is their shared experience of their six-a-side football team, which in season one entered a social soccer competition as beginners, in season two became fathers, and in season three became champions.

Desde sus primeros recuerdos en la estepa canadiense, al pináculo de la gloria pasando por algunos infiernos, muy pocas santidades y muchas patologías: la narración de una vida inenarrable. Ácidos, copas, escándalos, mujeres, acordes inextinguibles, desacuerdos... Regresos, vueltas y revueltas... Ésas son las claridades, ¿pero qué hay detrás o debajo de las sombras? Neil Young es una leyenda en ejercicio, una figura clave del canon roquero desde los ya lejanos sesenta y además un enigma. Al menos hasta ahora. Porque el muy esquivo sujeto, aquejado tal vez de una brusca simpatía, decidió cierta mañana mostrarnos el sanctasanctórum de sus recuerdos e intimidades. Ese improbable experimento confesional es este libro: una voz cantante escrita de puño y letra (no hay fantasmas por medio) que nos presenta el calidoscópico panorama de una vida y una música ejecutadas hasta la médula, que nos conduce desde las nieves de Ontario a los edenes hawaianos pasando por las calles de Los Ángeles en los albores de la gran turbulencia. Estamos, pues, ante el "relato definitivo" (tópico por una vez justificado) de un viaje obstinadamente inenarrable

"Det känns som att skriva passar mig som hand i handske; jag började och sedan gick det av bara farten ..." För första gången berättar en av rockens levande legender och mest originella artister med egna ord (utan spökskrivare) hela historien om sig själv och sitt liv. Vi får följa en lysande musikkarriär, som tar sin början på 60-talet och som fortfarande är i full gång, drygt fyrtio år senare. Sommaren 2012 släpper nämligen Neil Young sitt femtioförsta album Americana. Hans memoarer är en av årets mest efterlängtade böcker, rikligt illustrerad med foton från olika skeden i livet och karriären. Ett måste för alla musikälskare! Neil Young är en centralfigur i de senaste fyrtio årens rockhistoria och populärkultur. Han är en enastående personlighet som präglat musiken från sextiotalet med Buffalo Springfield till solokarriärens banbrytande album som After the Gold Rush och Harvest till megabästsäljande inspelningar med Crosby, Stills & Nash, och till återkomsten som grungemusikens skyddshelgon och gudfader. Neil Young är urtypen för den kompromisslösa artist som bara följer sitt hjärta och sitt eget huvud. I sin bok Fredsförklaring (den amerikanska titeln är Waging Heavy Peace) skriver han om sitt liv och sin musikaliska kreativitet ur ett kalejdoskopiskt perspektiv; det är en resa som sträcker sig från det snöiga Ontario till Los Angeles LSD-höljda boulevarder 1966 fram till dagens tillbakalutade och tankfulla tillvaro på Hawaii. Det är häpnadsväckande uppriktigt och slagkraftigt en blivande amerikansk klassiker. "Jag började och sedan var det bara att fortsätta. Precis som min pappa brukade göra på sin gamla Underwood uppe på vinden. Han sa: skriv på bara, du vet aldrig vad som kan dyka upp." Neil Young

Quarant’anni di musica. Trentasei album di rock and roll, folk e country, con sfumature di blues, techno e altri stili. Una vita a scrivere canzoni e a fare musica, canzoni che sono tuttora popolari e destinate a durare nel tempo. Neil Young è tutto questo. Qui si racconta, con semplicità e passione, rifacendo la strada percorsa, dai Buffalo Springfield alle collaborazioni con Crosby, Still & Nash, i Crazy Horse e altri gruppi e artisti di eccellenza. È, quella di Young, una scrittura che ci restituisce, intatte, le ragioni che hanno nutrito, contemporaneamente, l’ispirazione del songwriter e l’uomo che ha continuato a battersi nelle battaglie civili, per la pace, per l’ambiente, per i ragazzi disabili, per quel “sogno” che non ha mai smesso di sognare.

" Mieux vaut brûler d''un coup que s''éteindre à petit feu. " L''oeuvre de Neil Young – qui s''étend sur plus de quarante ans et comprend trente-quatre albums studio tour à tour rock, folk et country, avec des incursions du côté du blues et même de la techno – compte parmi les plus remarquables et les plus populaires de notre temps. Depuis ses débuts avec Buffalo Springfield jusqu''à sa carrière solo en passant par ses collaborations avec Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse et tant d''autres, Neil Young a toujours été salué aussi bien pour son talent musical que pour son intégrité artistique. L''histoire de Neil Young, ce n''est pas seulement celle d''un créateur génial, c''est aussi l''histoire d''un survivant appartenant à une génération décimée par un mode de vie destructeur. Celle d''un homme aujourd''hui âgé de soixante-six ans, singulier et attachant. L''histoire d''un homme libre.

“Jeg tror jeg må bruke tiden fornuftig, tenke grundig gjennom hva jeg gjør – om jeg skal leve opp til forventningene jeg så langt har forespeilet mine omgivelser. Ikke fordi dette er min eneste oppgave i livet; jeg har også andre saker å utføre. Men jeg snakker om hellige ting, dyder jeg må beskytte mot alle former for uvesen – åpenhjertig, og respektfullt.” – Neil Young Neil Youngs karriere strekker seg over 40 år, 34 album med rock and roll, folk, country – med islett av blues, techno og andre stilarter.

Én af rockhistoriens største personligheder Neil Young (f. 1945) fortæller om sit liv og om musikken, om gennembruddet med Buffalo Springfield, solokarrieren og samarbejdet med Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse og andre betydningsfulde musikere og grupper