"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-new wave group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge and significantly revitalizing Young's then-faltering career.

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  • "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-new wave group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge and significantly revitalizing Young's then-faltering career. The song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music ("to rust" or — in "My My, Hey Hey " — "to fade away") or to burn out, as John Lydon of the Sex Pistols did by abandoning his Johnny Rotten persona. A part of a lyric from the song, "it's better to burn out than to fade away," became infamous in modern rock after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide note. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain. "Out of the blue and into the black" was a Vietnam War-era phrase that originally referred to jumping out of the daylight into the darkness of a Vietcong tunnel, and was later generalized to refer to various situations, including death.
  • Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) on Neil Youngin suosituimpia kappaleita, jonka kitarariffi on yksi rockmaailman tunnetuimpia. Kappale liittyy akustiseen kappaleeseen "My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)". Molemmat sisältyvät vuonna 1979 julkaistuun albumiin Rust Never Sleeps. Se on julkaistu myös Youngin Greatest Hits -kokoelmalla. Kappale on vaikuttanut pop-kulttuuriin merkittävästi. Sen vaikutus näkyy erityisesti grunge- ja punk-yhtyeiden musiikissa ja se oli grunge-yhtye Nirvanan laulajan Kurt Cobainin suosikkeja. Vuonna 1994 Kurt Cobain käytti kappaleen sanoja "It's better to burn out than to fade away" -itsemurhakirjeessään. Young teki Cobainin muistoksi albumin Sleeps With Angels hänen kuolinvuotenaan. Suomalainen rock-bändi Negative on coveroinut My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)-kappaleen albumillaan Sweet & Deceitful.
  • Hey Hey, My My est une chanson rock de Neil Young. Elle existe, avec des variantes sur les paroles sous deux formes : la version acoustique My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), et la version électrique Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) qui clôt l'album de Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps paru en 1979. Inspirée par le groupe de pre-new wave Devo, la montée du punk et par ce que Neil Young ressentait comme son propre déphasage par rapport à la musique de son époque, cette chanson a traversé la génération, inspirant les amateurs de punk comme de grunge et redynamisant significativement sa carrière. La chanson parle de l'alternative entre produire toujours la même musique (« to rust » ou, dans My My, Hey Hey, « to fade away »), comme le fit John Lydon des Sex Pistols en abandonnant son personnage de Johnny Rotten. Un extrait des paroles, « it's better to burn out than to fade away » (« il vaut mieux brûler franchement que s'éteindre à petit feu ») est associé à la mort de Kurt Cobain, car le leader de Nirvana l'a cité dans la lettre expliquant son suicide. Neil Young expliqua plus tard qu'il était si bouleversé qu'il dédia son album Sleeps with Angels, 1994, à Cobain.
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  • "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-new wave group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge and significantly revitalizing Young's then-faltering career.
  • Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) on Neil Youngin suosituimpia kappaleita, jonka kitarariffi on yksi rockmaailman tunnetuimpia. Kappale liittyy akustiseen kappaleeseen "My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)". Molemmat sisältyvät vuonna 1979 julkaistuun albumiin Rust Never Sleeps. Se on julkaistu myös Youngin Greatest Hits -kokoelmalla. Kappale on vaikuttanut pop-kulttuuriin merkittävästi.
  • Hey Hey, My My est une chanson rock de Neil Young. Elle existe, avec des variantes sur les paroles sous deux formes : la version acoustique My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), et la version électrique Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) qui clôt l'album de Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps paru en 1979.
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