The line "It's better to burn out than it is to rust" is often credited to Young's friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks. The lyrics, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." were widely quoted by his peers and by critics. Young adopted the line and used it in the Crazy Horse version of the song, as well as for the title of his album. During the Different Fur studio sessions, Mothersbaugh added the lyrics "rust never sleeps", a slogan he remembered from his graphic arts career that promoted the automobile rust proofing product Rust-Oleum. On May 28, 1978, Young collaborated with Devo on a version of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" at the Different Fur studio in San Francisco and would later introduce the song to Crazy Horse. In 1977, Devo had been asked by Young to participate in the creation of his film, Human Highway, and a scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo (with Mothersbaugh changing a lyric about " Johnny Rotten" to "Johnny Spud"). The song "Hey Hey, My My.", as well as the titular phrase of the album on which it was featured, "rust never sleeps," sprang from Young's collaborations with Devo and, in particular, the band's frontman, Mark Mothersbaugh. The song was influenced by the punk rock zeitgeist of the late 1970s, in particular by Young's collaborations with the American art punk band Devo, and what he viewed as his own growing irrelevance. Combined with its acoustic counterpart " My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. " Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a song written by Canadian-American musician Neil Young.
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