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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 electropunk group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song significantly revitalized Young's career at the time, and today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge. The song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music ("to rust" or – in "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" – "to fade away") or to burn out. A line from the song, "it's better to burn out than to fade away," became infamous 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. Because of Cobain's suicide, in live concerts he now emphasizes the line "once you're gone you can't come back". == Origins == The song "Hey, Hey, My, My..." and the title phrase of the album, "rust never sleeps" on which it was featured sprang from Young's encounters with Devo and in particular Mark Mothersbaugh.〔Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Jimmy McDonough, 2002, Anchor〕 Devo was asked by Young in 1977 to participate in the creating of his film ''Human Highway''.〔(Oh Yes, It’s Devo: An Interview with Jerry Casale ) Brian L. Knight, ''The Vermont Review'', Retrieved December 15, 2007〕 A scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo, who clearly want little to do with anything "radio-friendly" (of note is Mothersbaugh changing "Johnny Rotten" to "Johnny Spud"). While the famous line "It's better to burn out than it is to rust" is often credited to Young's friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks,〔Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Jimmy McDonough, 2002, Anchor, pp. 534-535〕 its sentiment is also similar to an adage by President Millard Fillmore: "It is better to wear out than to rust out." Neil Young's 1969 song "Cowgirl in the Sand" has the lyric "Hello ruby in the dust, Has your band begun to rust". Some fans believe the reference to rusting refers to the cowgirl's musical band; others feel it references the cowgirl's marriage (wedding band). Some reviewers viewed Young's career as skidding after the release of ''American Stars 'N Bars'' and ''Comes a Time''. With the explosion of punk in 1977, some punks felt that Young and his contemporaries were becoming obsolete. Young worried that they were right. The death of Elvis Presley that same year seemed to sound a death knell for rock, as The Clash cried, "No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones in 1977!" in the song "1977".〔The Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash, Marcus Gray, 1996, New York: Henry Holt and Company, pp. 187-188〕 From Young's fear of becoming obsolete sprang an appreciation of the punk ethic, and the song was born, initially an acoustic lament that became "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)". Upon embarking on a tour with his backing band Crazy Horse, the song took on new life in a rock arrangement, punctuated by Young's guitar solos that would go on to inspire players of the proto-grunge scene, including Sonic Youth, The Meat Puppets, Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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