Jimmy McDonough

...first role with Meyer was Common Law Cabin (1967). Capri's second and last film was Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967). According to Jimmy McDonough, Capri felt betrayed by Meyer after a scene she was told "alluded to nudity" showed more of...

In this article: Russ Meyer, Alaina Capri, Common Law Cabin, UCLA, Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis, and Inglewood

...the mysterious "Waterface" character, no explanation is given to their identity, although in Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy McDonough, Young says that "Waterface is the person writing the letter. When I read the letter, I'm...

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...his belongings - which consisted of some clothes and a gold record - fit into a cardboard box. Years later, Young told biographer Jimmy McDonough that for a long time after Whitten died, he felt responsible for Whitten's death. It took him...

In this article: Danny Whitten, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, The Rockets, I Don't Want to Talk About It, Heroin, and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Jimmy McDonough is a journalist and biographer. He is perhaps best known for his biographies of Russ Meyer, Andy Milligan and Neil Young. He is noted by critics for his remarkably exhaustive accounts and for his tendency to avoid...

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...to mine much more out of that poor soul's short life. Books like Danny Sugarman's No One Here Gets Out Alive (about Jim Morrison) or Jimmy McDonough's abysmal Neil Young bio Shakey are more indicative of the norm: one endures the awful...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Asked by his biographer Jimmy McDonough how the feverishly anticipated Archives project was coming along, Neil Young's answer was nothing if not direct. "All you have to do is make sure...

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...apiece to be accompanied by more than one family member). And despite having participated willingly in the preparation of Jimmy McDonough's biography of him, Young subsequently took legal action to hold up its publication - later explaining...

In this article: Neil Young Archives, Charles Manson, After the Gold Rush, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, Rust Never Sleeps, New Wave, Tonight's the Night, and R&B

...the name of a 1977 unreleased album by Neil Young, and also of an acetate from that period which is claimed to be of that album. Jimmy McDonough's Shakey: Neil Young's Biography supports the claim that Chrome Dreams is indeed a bootlegged...

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Usually, this results in some sort of unfortunate quid pro quo arrangement. An extreme example: "Shakey," the 2002 tome on which Jimmy McDonough actually shared copyright with his subject, rocker Neil Young. "The Snowball: Warren Buffett...

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...hour. And I fell in love with that simplicity. " Another big influence was the 2002 Neil Young biography "Shakey," in which author Jimmy McDonough magically recounts Young's inspired communal recording techniques. Said Wilson, "He always...

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