"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a
rock song by
Neil Young. Combined with an acoustic rendition entitled "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful
1979 album
Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-
new wave artist
Devo, the rise of
punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today has become a song that 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 (Out of the Blue)" — "to fade away") or to burn out, as
John Lydon did by abandoning his Johnny Rotten
persona.
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