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Title:Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
Author:Neil Young
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 512 pages
Published:September 25th 2012 by Blue Rider Press
Categories:Music. Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir

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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.

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Original Title: Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
ISBN: 0399159460 (ISBN13: 9780399159466)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2012)

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I love Neil Young and I love this book. It continually brought tears to my eyes. His very human and enjoyable style made reading such a pleasure. I did not want this book to ever end. A possible Springfield reunion gave me shivers down my spine. I went racing back to my old vinyl to listen to the amazing and wonderful songs mentioned in the book. Pono has me totally buzzed - I would love to stop listening to digital crap and hear again the wonderful full music that musicians make for us. No

Don't let anyone tell you there are not great stories in this book, great reminiscences from Neil on the old days and the bands and the people etc. And if that is all you want read Shakey or one of the other many books of rehash that are out there. Many of us know these stories inside and out. What we don't know is what it's like to be Neil and travel around in his head and WHP provides that, I think, in a way that is as close as possible. So, yeah, it is all over the place and it does cover

This was a great book and after I read the last page I wanted more. Neil Young writes this book almost like a series of journal entries that flip between his present day projects (like creating electric cars and restoring real sound through Pono) and brief stories of his life making music. It's amazing how much knowledge this guy has about the technical side of music - he really is quite a talented geek! As he tells his tale about starting out in such varied places as Winnipeg and Hollywood, and

NEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!This shit is classically exasperating, pure Neil Young. Like a lot of his albums over the past 15 years one gets the feeling that it might have been more powerful with a little reflection and editing in the process but that's not Neil's thing and the diamonds are still scattered around in a lot of rough here. As some critics have noted it is interesting to see the writing and flow get better as the book goes on. Because it's basically

Three stars by any rational measure - but somehow I'm giving it four anyway. It rambles, repeats itself, bogs down in detail or flies over important stuff. It's easy to say it needs an editor or a ghost writer - but it wouldn't have been the same and might not have been better.Near the end Young reflects that he might have been a better person. But throughout the book it's clear that for all his clashes and snap decisions, he has also spent time being a good person. We see who he worked with and

HOMERUN!

I approached this book knowing full well that "Shakey" was the standard linearly-arranged biography (of a sort), and that this would be a rambling set of observations in typical Neil style. As a fan, I'm inclined to give the book four stars for its warm, curmudgeonly style, though Young is scarcely a literary genius. As a general-purpose read, it might be more of a moderate three-star, and some who are unfamiliar with Young's music might put it down in frustration - and Young understands that.