Waging Heavy Peace

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