<Tr> <Th> Label </Th> <Td> Reprise </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Neil Young, Jeff Blackburn </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan </Td> </Tr> <P> "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a song written by Canadian musician 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 . </P>

Who said it's better to burn out than fade away