Neil Young: The Rolling Stone Files (Rolling Stone)

Interviews, articles, reviews and trivia chronicle a career which has defied categorization. Neil Young's life and career, his successes and personal trials, commercial suicide, unpredictability and artistic triumphs are featured here. Young's songwriting has ricocheted from the personal to the political, from the straightforward to the obtuse. Dipping into almost each musical genre, he has grabbed each kind of music, shaken it upside down and turned it into his own unique style. Throughout he has committed himself to stretching limits, taking risks. Now, every Young oeuvre, whether a blind alley or an innovative watershed, is inspected, every live performance chronicled, and every revealing and quirky comment in interview pinned down to form an incisive and comprehensive celebration of his life and work.