Jimmy McDonough

Praise for Shakey

The raw materials of the story are sensational: burning ambition, clashing egos, onstage epileptic seizures, deranged groupies, great albums, the birth and death of Sixties idealism, and, most of all, extremes of su ...

Scotland on Sunday

Succeeds in stripping a star of his iconography - McDonough's book excels at anecdotes of music excess from a bygone era

Observer

It's hard to imagine anyone trying to better this book - It has an abundance of what Young values above all else - passion

Evening Standard

The raw materials of the story are sensational: burning ambition, clashing egos, onstage epileptic seizures, deranged groupies, great albums, the birth and death of Sixties idealism, and, most of all, extremes of su ...

Scotland on Sunday

Succeeds in stripping a star of his iconography - McDonough's book excels at anecdotes of music excess from a bygone era

Observer

It's hard to imagine anyone trying to better this book - It has an abundance of what Young values above all else - passion

Evening Standard

The raw materials of the story are sensational: burning ambition, clashing egos, onstage epileptic seizures, deranged groupies, great albums, the birth and death of Sixties idealism, and, most of all, extremes of su ...

Scotland on Sunday

Succeeds in stripping a star of his iconography - McDonough's book excels at anecdotes of music excess from a bygone era

Observer

It's hard to imagine anyone trying to better this book - It has an abundance of what Young values above all else - passion

Evening Standard