
Waging Heavy Peace" is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock & pop culture in the last four decades inducted not once but twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Reflective insightful & disarmingly honest " Waging Heavy Peace" is his long-awaited memoir. From his youth in Canada to his crazy journey out to California through Buffalo Springfield & Crosby Stills & Nash to his massively successful solo career & his re-emergence as the patron saint of grunge on to his role today as one of the last uncompromised & uncompromising survivors of rock 'n' roll
- this is Neil's story told in his own words. Young presents a kaleidoscopic view of personal life & musical creativity; it's a journey that spans the snows of Ontario to the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today. Along the way he writes about the music the victims the girls & the drugs; about his happy family life but also about the health problems he & his children have experienced; about guitars cars & sound systems; about Canada & California & Hawaii. Candid witty & revealing this book takes its place beside the classic memoirs of Bob Dylan & Keith Richards. " Wryly funny deeply moving painfully honest". (" Guardian"). " He's talking to you not at you unravelling himself as well & you don't want it to end... You see rock & roll history from the inside out & in the present tense". (" Independent"). " Young appears bounteous & joyful a genuinely happy hippy... Unusually for a rock memoir this one is almost completely angst-free". (" Sunday Times"). " Dryly hilarious.. .poignant..." Waging Heavy Peace" shows that Young is still in full possession of that stubborn brilliant one-of-a-kind instrument". (" Rolling Stone"). "A real treat.. .he writes openly & movingly abut the key figures in his life.. .you feel you know Young better for reading it". (" Metro")."