''Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)''
es una canción de rock de Neil Young.
Lanzada el 27 de Agosto de 1979.
Grabada el 22 de Octubre de 1978,
en The Cow Palace, San Francisco.
Una parte de una letra de la canción dice,
"it´s better to burn out than to fade away''
(es mejor quemarse que apagarse lentamente),
se hizo famosa después de haber sido citado en la nota de suicidio del líder de Nirvana, Kurt Cobain.
Neil Young dijo más tarde que estaba tan conmovido que le dedicó su álbum de 1994, ''Sleeps with Angels'' a él. Debido al suicidio de Cobain, en conciertos en vivo él hace hincapié en la línea de ''once you´re gone you can´t come back" (una vez que te has ido ya no puedes volver).
La canción también tuvo un impacto en los artistas Britpop.
Lo más notable cover de la canción de Oasis en su gira mundial 2000, que incluye en su álbum en vivo y DVD Familiar to Millions.
Sheff: You disagree with Neil Young's lyric in Rust Never Sleeps:
"It's better to burn out than to fade away..."
Lennon: I hate it. It's
better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. If he was
talking about burning out like Sid Vicious, forget it. I don't appreciate the worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive - Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.
They're saying John Wayne conquered cancer - he whipped it like a man.
You know, I'm sorry that he died and all that - I'm sorry for his family
- but he didn't whip cancer. It whipped him. I don't want Sean worshipping John Wayne or Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious. What do they
teach you? Nothing. Death. Sid Vicious died for what? So that we might
rock? I mean, it's garbage you know. If Neil Young admires that
sentiment so much, why doesn't he do it? Because he sure as hell faded
away and came back many times, like all of us. No, thank you. I'll take
the living and the healthy.
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