Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass

by Sylvie Simmons

Book Overview

After NEIL YOUNG left the Californian folk-rock band The Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and idiosyncratic North American singer-songwriters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184195084X
• ISBN13: 9781841950846
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

whats the beef

I just don't get what some of these complaints are about this book. Yeah it's short but how I understand it is it was meant to be short - an introduction to Neil Young. And that was exactly what I was looking for. I've only just started getting into the man (yeah, I know!) and I didn't want to plough through 600 pages, but this really gave me a lot of insights into his character and his life and made me want to read further. Now I'm going to buy Jimmy macDonoughs book. But if you want something to the point and well written I would recommend this

Small but perfectly Formed

I'll lay my cards on the table, I am what is commonly called a Neil Young obsessive so I wouldve been driven to buy the book whatever it was like. So no surprise I have a library full of, how shall I put this politely, mouse food. When I bought Sylvie Simmons' book on Neil Young I was a bit disappointed on first viewing to see that it wasn't very long - I've always loved her writing in MOJO magazine, especially of course when she's written about Neil Young, so I would have loved something the length of the Jimmy McDounough book (which I also bought). But do you know what? She packed more information and real insight into that short space than McDounough did into his huge tome (and actually I liked that too). So I'd say to any Neil Young fan, check Miss Simmons' book out, you won't be disappointed