

Even Young can’t know how the 1978 version of himself would have felt about him now. hey hey Am7 G Fmaj7 Rock and roll is here to stay C Em Em7 Its better to burn out Am F Than to fade away Am7 G Fmaj7 My My. Expressing his hope that the break would only be temporary, Trohman said: 'Neil Young once howled that its better to burn out than to fade away. 918,349 views, added to favorites 20,787 times. We can’t know what 32-year-old Neil Young would have thought of the 76-year-old version of himself: with a mullet and a fedora that make him look like he works the early shift at a pawn shop and arguing about vaccines with the former host of Fear Factor. My My Hey Hey Out Of The Blue Chords by Neil Young. Categories of this T-shirt is Lifestyle, Music from Hey Hey My My, Into the Black, Neil Young, A Lyric. Kurt Cobain's suicide note contained a line from this song: 'It's better to burn out than to fade away. Young released a concert documentary with that title the same day as the album. This was the first track on Rust Never Sleeps. lines in rock 'n' roll music: It's better to burn out / Than to fade away. 'My My, Hey Hey' is on the first side of the album, which is all acoustic. It was around the time of Elvis Presley’s death-“The King is gone, but he’s not forgotten”-and as young punk rockers were leading a frontal assault on the old rock regime, even while falling into the same traps-“This is the story of Johnny Rotten.” Verse 1 My my, hey hey Rock and roll is here to stay Its better to burn out than to fade away My my, hey hey Verse 2 Out of the blue and into the black They give you this, but. Its Better to Burn Out than to Fade Away Shirt. Down the hall in the folk-rock exhibit was Young's fringed buckskin jacket. It is possible that Young knew that one day he would be most famous to a new generation as being the 76-year-old having a very public argument about medical science with a man who had previously paid people to consume horse rectums on television and despaired at the thought of living a long life.īut more likely than him being a seer is that with the lyrics, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away,” Young was talking about mortality and the changing of guard in rock ‘n’ roll. From that lyric and riff to those solos that sound like explosions of. Its better to burn out than to fade away. Using the Bob Dylan of the mid-60s as a reference point. When Neil Young recorded Hey Hey, My My in 1978 with his band Crazy Horse, he was 32. Neil Young was one of the few of his generation who heard that voice loud and clear and decided to fight back as hard as he could.
