Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History - Hardcover

Gary Graff; Daniel Durchholz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760336474 ISBN 13: 9780760336472

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2010

Synopsis

Neil Young has been described as brilliant, cantankerous, enigmatic, and vexing. Regardless, his generation-spanning fan base and his profound musical influence cannot be denied. While a number of narrative titles have chronicled Neil Young in one manner or another, this is the first illustrated history to span his 41 studio albums, 6 live releases, and 40-plus years as a recording and touring musician. From Young's earliest days in the Canadian rock scene through his tenures with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY and on to his varied solo career, each aspect of the musician's career is covered. Photography from rock photographers of the 1960s to the present, as well as concert posters and memorabilia from around the world, are complemented by commentary from notable musicians around the world and a discography.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Durchholz is co-editor of MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide and a former editor at Request and Replay magazines and at STLtoday.com. His byline has appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Stereophile, and many other publications. His weekly music segment can be heard on The Carney Show on KMOX-AM (St. Louis) and online at KMOX.com. He lives in Wildwood, Missouri.

Gary Graff is an award-winning music journalist based in Detroit. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Features Syndicate, Billboard, UPI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Revolver, and other publications, as well as to radio stations in Detroit and Milwaukee. He is the editor of The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen A to E to Z and the series editor of the MusicHound Essential Album Guides. He lives in Beverly Hills, Michigan.

From the Back Cover

Neil Young has been described as brilliant, confounding, ruthless, mercurial, and enigmatic. Here is the book that dares to document his legacy.

Offering visual and critical tribute to the man and his music, this completely illustrated biography overflows with more than 400 photographs and collectibles, including rare posters, 7-inch picture sleeves, backstage passes, and ticket stubs. Veteran music journalists Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff trace Young s life from his Canadian boyhood to his latest releases, offering exclusive commentary from admiring musicians and a discography that spans sixty-plus albums.

The result is a visually stunning portrait of an artist whose profound musical influence cannot be denied.

From the Inside Flap

For more than forty years, Neil Young has been described variously as brilliant, confounding, ruthless, mercurial, and enigmatic. Veteran music journalists Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff, together with Voyageur Press, offer visual tribute to Young's storied career and influence. From his earliest days on the Canadian folk and rock scenes through his tenures with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY and his many solo efforts backed by bands including the Stray Gators, the International Harvesters, and, of course, Crazy Horse (among others), Durchholz and Graff cover every aspect of Young's long and varied career. A wealth of photographs--many rare or previously unpublished--along with memorabilia from around the globe, exclusive quotes from admiring musicians, an extensive discography, and sidebars examining Young's various passions result in a visually stunning tribute that dares to document a towering figure whose influence cannot be denied.

Reviews

Voyageur Press books always look like a million bucks, and this coffee-table career biography of enduring sixties rock star Young is no exception. Even the dullest old snapshot of kid Neil's family or his first band lushly glows from matte pages as if printed on silk. And those pages! Seldom allowed to be merely white, they are colored and loosely patterned when not entirely filled by a photo. As rock photo books emphasizing the subject, not the photographer(s), go, this is a honey. The text, though, while grammatically sound (save a misplaced modifier or two) and informative enough about Young's professional peregrinations (literal: he has been known to change course and flee halfway through a concert) and associations, is rife with pop-music boilerplate and more than a little repetitious. Indeed, it sometimes seems that Durchholz and Graff each wrote up the same thing, didn't notice, and ran both versions, sometimes on facing pages. Ah, so what? Nobody will read it like a novel, and scads will love browsing it. --Ray Olson

Edition details

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760336474
• ISBN 13: 9780760336472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224