“Roll another number for the road…” Neil Young’s vigorous workrate can be hard for even the most obsessive fan to keep up with: since 2000 alone, he’s managed two autobiographies, eight personally curated archive releases, one imaginatively conceptual live album, five films, an environmentally friendly car and a new audio format, plus the small matter of 14 new studio albums. To navigate that amazing body of work, you’ll need a trustworthy companion – which is where our Ultimate Music Guide: Neil Young comes in.
This deluxe, updated edition tells the complete story of Young, right up to 2016’s Peace Trail. We’ve reviewed every single one of his albums, and rescued a wealth of interviews from the NME, Melody Maker and Uncut archives. “You can’t worry about what people think. I never do. I never did, really,” Young told Uncut in 2012. And here’s the proof: one of rock’s greatest runs, anatomised and celebrated in all its weird, ragged glory…