Neil Percival Young , (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. After starting his music career in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and others. Young has released two solo albums at the time he joined Crosby, Stills & amp; Nash in 1969, in addition to the three as members of Buffalo Springfield. From an early solo album and an album with backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded studio streams and live albums, occasionally fighting with his record company along the way.
Young's guitar, a very private lyric, and tenor tenor's voices replaced his long career. Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which often incorporate folk, rock, country, and other musical styles. His often distorted electric guitar, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to Pearl Jam's 1995 album Mirror Ball . Young has recently been supported by the Promise of the Real.
Young-directed films (or directed together) use the pseudonyms of Bernard Shakey , including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979 )), Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/DÃÆ' Â © jÃÆ' Vu (2008). He also contributed to the soundtrack of the films Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995).
Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inaugurated it twice: as a solo artist in 1995 and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield. In 2000, Rolling Stone named Young as the 34th greatest rock n roll artist.
He has lived in California since the 1960s but retained Canadian citizenship. He was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14, 2006, and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2009.
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Life and career
Beginning of the year (1945-1966)
Neil Young was born on November 12, 1945, in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Scott Alexander Young (1918-2005), was a journalist and sports writer who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland "Rassy" Young (1918-1990) is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution. Although Canada, his mother has American and French descent. Young parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, Robert "Bob" Young, born in 1942. Shortly after Young's birth in 1945, his family moved to the village of Omemee, Ontario, who then described Young dear as "sleepy little place". Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of disease in Ontario (Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, at age nine, also contracted the virus during this epidemic). After recovering, the Young family vacation in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. In 1952, after returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before moving to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in the popular music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve years old, his father, who had had some affairs, left his mother. His mother asked for a divorce, given in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, while his brother Bob lives with his father in Toronto.
During the mid-1950s, Young listened to rock 'n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R & amp; B, country, and western pop. He idolized Elvis Presley and then referred him to some of his songs. Other early musical influences include Link Wray, Jimmy Gilmer and Fireballs, The Ventures, Cliff Richard and Shadows, Chuck Berry, Hank Marvin, Little Richard, Domino Fats, The Chantels, The Monotones, Ronnie Self, Fleetwoods, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash , Roy Orbison, and Gogi Grant. Young first began playing his own music on a plastic ukulele, before, as he would then relate, went to "better ukulele to banjo ukulele to baritone ukulele - everything except guitars".
Young and his mother settled in the working class area of ​​Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, where shy, dry-humored youths are registered at Earl Gray Junior High School. It was there that he formed his first band, Jades, and met Ken Koblun. While studying at Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, he played in several instrumental rock bands, and eventually dropped out due to his musical career. Young's first stable band was the Squires, with Ken Koblun, Jeff Wuckert and Bill Edmondson on drums, who had a local hit called "The Sultan". The band played in Fort William (now part of the town of Thunder Bay, Ontario), where they recorded a series of demos produced by local producer, Ray Dee, called Young "Original Briggs". While playing in The Flamingo, Young meets Stephen Stills, whose band Company plays in the same place, and they become friends. The Squires plays in several dance halls and clubs in Winnipeg and Ontario.
After leaving Squires, Young works with folk clubs in Winnipeg, where he first meets Joni Mitchell. Mitchell recalled that Young was strongly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time. Here he wrote some of his earliest and most enduring folk songs such as "Sugar Mountain", about the lost youth. Mitchell wrote "The Circle Game" in reply. The Winnipeg band The Guess Who (with Randy Bachman as lead guitarist) has hit Top 40 Canada with â € Å"Flying on the Ground is Wrongâ € Young, which is Young's first major success as a songwriter.
In 1965 Young toured Canada as a solo artist. In 1966, while in Toronto, he joined Mynah Birds with Rick James. The band managed to secure a record deal with the Motown label, but when their first album was recorded, James was arrested for AWOL from a Marine Reserve. After Mynah Birds broke up, Young and bass player Bruce Palmer moved to Los Angeles. Young admitted in an interview in 2009 that he was in the United States illegally until he received a "green card" (permanent residence permit) in 1970. Buffalo Springfield (1966-1968)
Once they reached Los Angeles, Young and Palmer met with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Dewey Martin to form Buffalo Springfield. A mixture of folk, country, psychedelia, and rock, lent by twin lead guitar Stills and Young, made Buffalo Springfield a critical success, and their first record of Buffalo Springfield (1966) sold well after the topical song Stills' For What It's Worth 'became a hit, aided by harmonic melodies Young played on electric guitars. According to Rolling Stone, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other sources, Buffalo Springfield helped create the genre of folk rock and country rock.
Their management distrust, as well as Palmer's capture and deportation, exacerbated the already strained relationship between group members and caused the death of Buffalo Springfield. The second album, Buffalo Springfield Again , was released in late 1967, but two of Young's three contributions were solo songs recorded separately from other group members.
From the album, "Mr. Soul" is the only Young song of three that all five members of the group do together. "Broken Arrow" features sound footage from other sources, including opening a song with soundbite from Dewey Martin who sings "Mr. Soul" and closes it with a throbbing heartbeat. "Expecting to Fly" features a string arrangement which is Young's co-producer for the song, Jack Nitzsche, dubbed "symphonic pop".
In May 1968, the band parted ways forever, but to fulfill the last contract obligations of Last Time Around albums, was released, mainly from recordings made earlier that year. Young contributed songs "On the Way Home" and "I Am a Child", singing the last song. In 1997, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Young did not show up at the ceremony. The three surviving members, Furay, Stills and Young, performed together as Buffalo Springfield at the annual Young Benefit Bridge School on 23-24 October 2010, and in Bonnaroo in the summer of 2011. Young also played as a studio session guitarist for several 1968 recordings by The Monkees that appear on the album Head and Instant Replay .
Being a solo, Crazy Horse (1968-1969)
After the breakup of Buffalo Springfield, Young signed a solo contract with Reprise Records, the home of his colleague and friend Joni Mitchell, with whom he shares manager, Elliot Roberts, who manages Young to this day. Young and Roberts immediately started working on Young's first solo album, Neil Young (January 22, 1969), which received mixed reviews. In a 1970 interview, Young stopped his album as "overdubbed rather than played." The album contains songs that remain the subject of his live performances including "The Loner".
For the next album, Young recruited three musicians from a band called The Rockets: Danny Whitten on guitar, Billy Talbot on bass guitar, and Ralph Molina on drums. The trio took the name Crazy Horse (after the historical figure of the same name), and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (May 1969), credited to "Neil Young with Crazy Horse". Recorded in just two weeks, the album includes "Cinnamon Girl", "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River." Young reportedly wrote all three songs in bed on the same day while nursing a high fever of 103Ã, Â ° F (39Ã, Â ° C).
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (1969-1970)
Shortly after the release of Everyone Knows It Does Not Exist, Young reunited with Stephen Stills by joining Crosby, Stills & amp; Nash, who has released one album of Crosby, Stills & amp; Nash as a trio in May 1969. Young initially offered a position as a sideman, but agreed to join only if he received full membership, and the group - the winner of the 1969 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award - was renamed Crosby, Stills , Nash & amp; Young. The quartet debuted in Chicago on August 16, 1969, and later performed at the famous Woodstock Festival, where Young missed the majority of the acoustic set and refused to be filmed during the electric set, even telling the cameraman: "One of you fuckin ' people approach me and I'll hit you with my guitar. ' During the making of their first album, DÃÆ' Â © jÃÆ' Vu (11 March 1970), the musicians often argue, especially Young and Stills, both of whom are struggling to master.Stills continue throughout their lifelong relationship to criticize Young, said that he "wants to play folk music in a rock band." Despite the tension, Young's youth with CSN & Y just coincided with the band's most creative and successful period, and contributed substantially to his continued success as a solo artist.
Young wrote "Ohio" after the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970. The song was quickly recorded by CSN & amp; Y and immediately released as a single, though CSN & amp; Y's "Teach Your Children" is still up the singles charts.
After the Gold Rush , acoustic tour and Harvest (1970-1972)
Later that year, Young released his third solo album, After Gold Rush (August 31, 1970), featuring, among others, young Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills, and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves. Young also recorded some songs with Crazy Horse, but fired them early in the session. The recording is finally less reinforced than Everybody Knows This is Nowhere , with a wider range of sounds. Young's newfound fame with CSNY makes his commercial breakthrough album a solo artist, and it contains some of his most famous works, including "Tell Me Why" and "Do not Let It Bring You Down", the country's only "Only Love Can Break Your Heart "and" When You Dance, I Can Really Love ", and the title song," After the Gold Rush ", is played on the piano, with dream-like lyrics playing the entire subject of drugs and interpersonal relationships. for environmental issues. The young bitter disappointment of racism in the blues-rock song "Southern Man" (along with later songs entitled "Alabama") was also controversial with southerners in the era of desegregation, prompting Lynyrd Skynyrd to denounce Young by name in the lyrics for their hit "Sweet Home Alabama ". However, Young said he was a fan of Skynyrd's music, and front man Ronnie Van Zant's band was later photographed wearing a T-shirt Tonight on the cover of the album.
In the fall of 1970, Young started a solo acoustic tour of North America, where he played Buffalo Springfield and CSNY songs on guitar and piano, along with material from his solo album and a number of new songs. Some of the songs that Young aired on the tour, such as "Journey through the Past", will never find a home on the studio album, while other songs, such as "See Sky About to Rain", will only be released in the coming years. With CSNY split up and Crazy Horse after signing their own recording contract, Young's tour, now titled "Journey Through the Past", continued until early 1971, and his focus shifted to new songs he wrote; he famously said that after writing so much, he could not think of anything to do but play it. Many sold-out performances, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and a pair of famous hometown shows at Massey Hall Toronto, were recorded for a planned live album. The show became legendary among Young fans, and the recording was officially released almost 40 years later as the official bootleg in the Young Archives series.
Toward the end of his tour, Young performed one of the new acoustic songs on the TV show Johnny Cash . "The Needle and the Damage Done", the bleak lament of pain caused by heroin addiction, has been inspired in part by Crazy Horse member Danny Whitten, who eventually died while battling drug problems. While in Nashville for the record Cash, Young accepted the invitation of Quadrafonic Sound Studios owner Elliot Mazer to record a song there with a group of country-music session musicians who pulled together at the last minute. Making connections with them, he baptized them The Stray Gators, and started playing with them. In accordance with the suitability of the project, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor were brought in from Cash tape to conduct background vocals. On the advice of producer David Briggs, he canceled plans for an immediate release of live acoustic recordings in support of studio albums consisting of Nashville sessions, electric guitar-oriented sessions recorded later in the barn, and two recordings made with the London Symphony Orchestra at Barking (credited as Barking Town Hall and now the Broadway Theater) during March 1971. The result was Kelly's fourth album, Harvest (February 14, 1972). The only thing left of the original live concept is the live acoustic performance of the album "Needle and the Damage Done."
After success with CSNY, Young buys a farm in the rural hills above Woodside and Redwood City in Northern California ("Broken Arrow Ranch", where he lives until his divorce in 2014.) He wrote the song "Old Man" in honor of the old steward of the land, Louis Avila. The song "A Man Needs a Maid" was inspired by her relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress. "Heart of Gold" was released as the first single from Harvest , the No. 1 hit only. 1 in his career. "Old Man" is also popular.
The recording of the album was almost unintentional. His ultimate success brings Young off guard, and his first instinct is to retreat from fame. In the Decade 1977 compilation, Young chose to include his greatest hit of the period, but his famous handwritten record described "Heart of Gold" as a song that "put me in the middle of the Road. there soon became boring, so I headed for the moat. Rougher journey but I saw more interesting people there. "
The "Ditch" trilogy and the struggle private (1972-1974)
Although the new tour with The Stray Gators (now added by Danny Whitten) has been planned to follow up on Harvest's success, it became clear during practice that Whitten could not function due to drug abuse. On November 18, 1972, shortly after he was fired from tour preparation, Whitten was found dead from an alcohol/diazepam overdose. Young described the incident to Cameron Crowe's Rolling Stone in 1975: "[We] rehearsed with him and he could not cut it. He could not remember anything. far away.I have to tell her to go back to LA 'This is not happening, man, you're not enough together.' He just said, "I do not have anywhere else to go, man. How about I'm going to tell my friends? "And he split up.That night the coroner called me from LA and told me he was going to OD That blew my mind I love Danny I feel responsible And from there, I have to go to the big tour this is a big arena, I'm very nervous and... unsafe. "
In the tour, Young fought with his voice and the appearance of drummer Kenny Buttrey, a Nashville session musician who was not accustomed to performing in a hard rock environment; Buttrey was eventually replaced by former CSNY drummer Johnny Barbata, while David Crosby and Graham Nash donated rhythm guitars and backing vocals on the final dates of the tour. The album was assembled after this incident, Time Fades Away (October 15, 1973), often portrayed by Young as his most favorite [[note]], and was not officially released on CD. until 2017 (as part of the Official Official Release Young). Nevertheless, Young and his band tried several new musical approaches in this period. Time Fades Away , for example, was recorded live, even though it was a new material album, an approach that Young would repeat with more success later. Time was the first of three successive commercial failures that would later be collectively known to fans as "Ditch Trilogy", in contrast to the middle pop of the streets of Harvest (1972 ). The following albums were seen as a more challenging expression of Young's inner conflicts in achieving success, expressing the specific struggles of his friends and himself, as well as the worsening idealism of his generation in America at the time.
In the second half of 1973, Young formed The Santa Monica Flyers, with the rhythm section Crazy Horse plus by Nils Lofgren on guitar and piano and Time Vest Away volds Ben Keith on guitar steel pedal. Greatly affected by Whitten and Roadie drug-related deaths Bruce Berry, Young recorded an album that was specifically inspired by the incident, Tonight (June 20, 1975). The dark tone and rudeness of this album caused Reprise to delay and Young had to squeeze them for two years before they released it. While his record company delayed the release, Young recorded another album, On the Beach (July 16, 1974), which featured a more melodic acoustic sound, including the recording of the old song "See Sky About to Rain" but also discussed dark themes such as the collapse of the 1960s folk ideals, the negative side of California's success and stomach lifestyle. Like Time Time Fades, it sold badly but eventually became a critical favorite, presenting some of Young's most original works. The review of the 2003 re-release on CD On On Beach describes the music as "stunning, dreadful, clear, and bleak".
After completing On the Beach , Young reunited with Elliot Mazer producer Harvest to record another acoustic album, Reunion, retrospective and Rust Never Sleeps (1974-1979)
Young reunited with Crosby, Stills and Nash after a four-year hiatus in the summer of 1974 for a concert tour that was recorded and released in 2014 as CSNY 1974. This was one of the first stadium tours, and the biggest tour in which Young has participated up to currently.
In 1975, Young Crazy Horse reformed with Frank Sampedro on guitar as a backup band for the eighth album, Zuma (November 10, 1975). Many of the songs relate to the themes of failed relationships; "Cortez the Killer", retelling the Spanish conquest of Mexico from the Aztecs point of view, may also be heard as a lost love allegory. Zuma ' s cover song, "Through My Sails", is the only fragment released from the canceled session with Crosby, Stills and Nash for another group album.
In 1976, Young reunited with Stephen Stills for the album Long May You Run (September 20, 1976), credited to The Stills-Young Band; the follow-up tour was ended in the middle by Young, who sent Stills a telegram that read: "Funny how some things started spontaneously ending that way.. Eat peaches, Neil."
In 1976, Young performed with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and many other rock musicians at The Last Waltz's all-star high-profile concert, The Band's last appearance. The release of Martin Scorsese's film was postponed while Scorsese reluctantly edited it back to obscure a lump of cocaine that was clearly visible hanging from Young's nose during his "Helpless" appearance. The American Stars' n Bars (June 13, 1977) contained two songs originally recorded for Homegrown albums, Homegrown and Star of Bethlehem, as well as new material, including staples future concert "Like a Hurricane". Perpetrators on the record include Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Young protà ©  © gà ©  © Nicolette Larson along with Crazy Horse. In 1977, Young also released the Decade compilation, a collection of privately selected songs that covered every aspect of his work, including some previously unreleased songs. The footage includes fewer commercial album tracks alongside the hit radio.
Present Time (October 2, 1978), Young's first new solo record since the mid-1970s, also featured Larson and Crazy Horse. The album became Young's most commercially accessible album in some time and marked his return to his folk roots, including Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds" cover, a song related to his childhood in Canada. Other album songs, "Lotta Love", were also recorded by Larson, with his version reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1979. In 1978, many filming was done for the movie Young Human Highway, which takes its name from a song featured on Comes a Time . For four years, Young will spend $ 3,000,000 of his own money for production. It also marks the beginning of his short collaboration with the post-punk band Devo, whose members appear in the film.
Young left in 1978 on a long "Rust Never Sleeps" tour, where he played a lot of new material. Each concert is divided into a set of solo acoustics and an electric set with Crazy Horse. The electric set, which features an aggressive play style, is then seen in response to punk rock. Two new songs, acoustic "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" and "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" are the essence of the new material. Their lyrics are among the most quoted Young. Young also compared Johnny Rotten's appearance with the newly deceased "King" figure of Elvis Presley, who himself had been underestimated as a dangerous influence only to become an icon. Rotten reciprocated by playing one of Young's songs, "Revolution Blues" from On the Beach , on a London radio show, an early sign of Young's embrace eventually by a number of punk-influenced alternative musicians.
Two albums that accompany Young Rust Never Sleeps (July 2, 1979; new material, taken from live recordings, but featuring overdub studio) and Live Rust (November 19, 1979) mixtures of old and new recordings, and original concert recordings) captured two concert sides, with solo acoustic tracks on the A side, and loud, uptempo electric songs on the side B. The movie version of the concert, also called Rust Never Sleeps (1979), directed by Young under the pseudonym "Bernard Shakey". Young works with rock artist Jim Evans to create poster art for movies, using Star Wars as a theme. Young's work since Harvest (1972) has alternated between being rejected by a mass audience and seen as backward-looking by critics, sometimes both at once, and now it is suddenly seen as relevant by a new generation, who started finding previous jobs. The readers and critics of Rolling Stone chose it as Artist of the Year for 1979 (along with The Who), voted Rust Never Sleeps as Album of the Year, and chose him as Male Vocalist of the Year also. The Village Voice is named Rust Never Sleeps as the year's winner at Pazz & amp; Jop Poll, survey the national critics, and honor Young as the Decade Artist. The Warner Music Vision release on VHS Rust Never Sleeps in 1987 had a run time of 116 minutes, and although fully manufactured in Germany, was originally imported from there by markets across Europe.
Year of the experiment (1980-1988)
At the beginning of this decade, troubled by domestic medical problems related to his disabled son, Ben, Young has little time to write and record. After giving incidental music to a Hunter S. Thompson 1980 biopic film entitled Where Buffalo Roam , Young released the Hawks & amp; Doves (November 3, 1980) ', a brief note united from the session that goes back to 1974.
1981 ReÃ, · acÃ, tor , an electric album recorded with Crazy Horse, also included material from the 1970s. Young did not tour to support one of the albums; in total, he played only one show, a set at the 1980 Bread and Roses Festival in Berkeley, between his late 1978 tour with Crazy Horse and the start of his tour with Trans Band in mid-1982.
The 1982 Trans album, which combines vocoders, synthesizers, and electronic beats, was Young's first for the new Geffen Records label (distributed at the time by Warner Bros. Records, whose parents Warner Music Group owns most Young solo and band catalog) and represents a different style departure. Young later revealed that the inspiration for the album is the theme of technology and communication with his son Ben, who has a severe cerebral palsy and can not speak. The extensive tour precedes the release of the album, and is documented by the video of Neil Young in Berlin, released in 1986. MTV plays the video for "Sample and Hold" in light rotation. The whole song contains "robot vocals" by Young and Nils Lofgren.
Young's next album, 1983's Everybody's Rockin ', included several rockabilly covers and clocked in less than twenty-five minutes in length. Young is supported by Shocking Pinks to support the US tour. Trans (1982) has attracted the rage of label head David Geffen for lack of commercial appeal, and with Everybody's Rockin following just seven months later , Geffen Records sued Young for making music "does not represent" him. The album is also famous as the first to make a commercial music video of Young - Tim Pope directing videos for "Wonderin '" and "Cry, Cry, Cry". Also aired in 1983, though a bit noticeable, was the Highway of Man . Directed together and co-written by Young, a long-running eclectic comedy starring Young, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, David Blue, Sally Kirkland, Charlotte Stewart, and Devo members.
The first year without Neil Young's album since the start of Young's music career with Buffalo Springfield in 1966 was in 1984. Young's lack of productivity was mainly due to ongoing legal battles with Geffen, although he was also frustrated that the label rejected 1982's country album Old Ways . It was also the year when Young's third child was born, a girl named Amber Jean. Later diagnosed with inherited epilepsy, Amber Jean was the second child of Neil and Pegi together.
Young spent most of 1984 and all 1985 toured for Old Ways (12 August 1985) with his country band, International Harvesters. The album was finally released in a modified form in mid 1985. Young also appeared at this year's Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, teaming up with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the quartet's first appearance for a paying audience in over ten years.
Young's last two albums for Geffen are more conventional in the genre, though they incorporate production techniques such as synthesizers and previously unusual drum echoes in Young's music. Young recorded 1986's
Turning back to his old label, Reprise Records, Young went on an ongoing tour, assembling a new blues band called The Bluenotes in mid 1987 (legal dispute with musician Harold Melvin forcing the re-repatement of the band as Ten Men Working in the middle of the tour). The addition of a brass section provides a new jazz sound, and the 1988s song title Note This To You became Young's first single hit of the decade. Accompanied by a video that parodies company rock, ad pretensions, and Michael Jackson, the song was originally unofficially banned by MTV for mentioning the brand names of some of their sponsors. Young wrote an open letter, "What does M mean in MTV: music or money?" Nevertheless, the video was eventually crowned as the best video of the year by the network in 1989. In comparison, the main music cable network of Young country's origin, Muchmusic, immediately run the video.
Young reunited with Crosby, Stills, and Nash to record the 1988 American Dream album and play two charity concerts at the end of the year, but the group did not start the full tour. This album is only a second studio recording for the quartet.
Return to prominence (1989-1999)
Single 1989 young "Rockin 'in the Free World", which reached No. 2 on the US mainstream charts, and accompanying the album, Freedom , rocketed back into popular consciousness after a decade of sometimes difficult genre-genre experiments. The album lyrics are often openly political; "Rockin 'in the Free World" deals with homelessness, terrorism, and environmental degradation, implicitly criticizing President George H.W.'s government policies. Bush.
The use of heavy feedback and distortion on some songs Freedom reminds us of Rust Never Sleeps (1979) album and signifies the appearance of an upcoming grunge. The rising stars in this genre, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, often refer to Young as a great influence, contributing to his popular revival. A tribute album titled The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young was released in 1989, featuring cover by alternative and grunge acts including Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Soul Asylum, Dinosaur Jr., and Pixies.
Young's 1990 album Ragged Glory , recorded with Crazy Horse in a warehouse on a Northern California ranch, continues this heavy-distortion aesthetic. Young toured for an album with Orange County, California country-punk band Social Distortion and alternative rock pioneer Sonic Youth as support, much to the fear of many of his old fans. Weld , a two-disk live album documenting the tour, was released in 1991. Sonic Youth's most prominent influence on the Arc , a 35-minute collage of feedback and distortion attached together Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore's suggestion and originally packed with multiple versions of Weld.
1992's Harvest Moon marked a sudden return to country and folk-rock stylings of Harvest (1972) and reunited him with several musicians from the album, including singer Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. The title track was a small hit and the record was well received by critics, winning the Juno Award for Album of the Year in 1994. Young also contributed to 1992 Prandewly Randy Bachman's 1992 romance song, and earned his 1993 Academy Award nomination for his song "Philadelphia", from the soundtrack of the Jonathan Demme movie of the same name. MTV Unplugged albums and performances appeared in 1993. Later that year, Young collaborated with Booker T. and MGs for a summer tour of Europe and North America, alongside the Blues Traveler, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam also on bills. Some European events end with the song "Rockin 'in the Free World" played with Pearl Jam, which depicts their full-scale collaboration two years later.
In 1994, Young re-collaborated with Crazy Horse for Sleeps with Angels, a dark tape, his moody atmosphere affected by Kurt Cobain's death earlier that year: the title track specifically relates to Cobain's life and death, without mentioning its name. Cobain has quoted Young's lyrics "Better to burn than fade" (a line from "My My, Hey Hey") on a suicide note. Young reportedly made a repeated attempt to contact Cobain prior to his death. Young and Pearl Jam perform the Act of Love on abortion rights with the benefits of Crazy Horse, and present at a Rock and Roll of Fame dinner, sparking interest in collaboration between the two. Still enamored with the grunge scene, Young reconnected with Pearl Jam in 1995 for the live-in-the-studio Mirror Ball album and a European tour with the band and producer Brendan O'Brien supporting Young. 1995 also marks Young's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he was sworn in by Eddie Vedder.
- "Young has consistently demonstrated the unfettered passion of an artist who understands that self-renewal is the only way to avoid being burnt.For this reason, he remains one of the most important artists of the rock and roll era. " - Website Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 1995, Young and his manager Elliot Roberts founded a record label, Vapor Records. It has released recordings by Tegan and Sara, Spoon, Jonathan Richman, Vic Chesnutt, Everest, Pegi Muda, Jets Overhead, and Young himself, among others.
Young's next collaborative partner is filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who asked Young to write a soundtrack for his black and white western film 1995 Dead Man . Young instrumental's soundtrack was improvised as she watched the movie alone in a studio. The death of old mentor, friend and producer David Briggs in late 1995 prompted Young to reconnect with Crazy Horse the following year for Broken Arrow album and tour. A concert film directed by Jarmusch and the live album of the tour, Year of the Horse , appeared in 1997. From 1996-97 Young and Crazy Horse toured extensively throughout Europe and North America, including duty as part of the sixth annual HORDE Tour Festival.
In 1998, Young renewed his collaboration with the Phish rock band, sharing the stage at the annual Farm Aid concert and then at Young's Bridge School Benefit, where he joined Phish's headliners to deliver "Helpless" and "I Shall Be Released" songs. Phish rejected Young's invitation later to become his support band on the North American tour of 1999.
The decade ended in a late 1999 release of Advanced activism and brush with death (2000s)
Neil Young continues to release new material very quickly during the first decade of the new millennium. Studio album Silver & amp; Gold and live album Road Rock Vol. 1 was released in 2000 and both were accompanied by live concert films. The 2001 Let's Roll single was a tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks, and the effective actions taken by passengers and crew on Flight 93 in particular. At the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" concert for the victims of the attack, Young performed "Imagine" John Lennon and accompanied Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready on "Long Road", a Pearl Jam song written with Young during Mirrorball session. "Let's Roll" included in 2002 Are You Passionate? , an album consisting mostly of soft love songs dedicated to Young's wife, Pegi, backed by Booker T. & amp; the M.G.s.
In 2003, Young released Greendale , a concept album recorded with Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. The songs revolved around the murder of a police officer in a small town in California and his influence on the townspeople. Under the pseudonym "Bernard Shakey", Young directs the accompanying film of the same name, featuring actors who sync music from the album. He toured extensively with Greendale material throughout 2003 and 2004, first with solo, an acoustic version in Europe, then with a full-cast stage show in North America, Japan and Australia. Young started using biodiesel on the 2004 Greendale tour, lit his truck and tour bus with fuel. "Our Greendale tour is now ozone friendly", he said. "I plan to continue using this exclusively approved government and government fuel from now on to prove that it is possible to ship goods anywhere in North America without the use of foreign oil, while being environmentally responsible." Young spent the last part of 2004 delivering a series of intense acoustic concerts in various cities with his wife, who is a vocalist and a trained guitarist.
In March 2005, while working on the Prairie Wind album in Nashville, Young was diagnosed with a cerebral aneurysm. She was successfully treated with a minimally invasive neuroradiologic procedure, performed at a New York hospital on March 29, but two days later she collapsed on the New York road due to bleeding from the femoral artery, which the radiologist had used to access the aneurysm. This complication forced Young to cancel the scheduled appearance of the Juno Awards in Winnipeg, but within a few months he returned to the stage, appearing at the conclusion of Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, on July 2nd. During the show, he made his debut. a new song, a soft song called "When God Made Me". Young brush with death affects Prairie Wind about retrospection and mortality. The live premiere album in Nashville was filmed by filmmaker Jonathan Demme in the 2006 film Neil Young: Heart of Gold .
The updated young activism manifested in the 2006 album Living with War, which like the previous track "Ohio", was recorded and released in less than a month as a direct result of recent events. In early 2006, three years after the US invasion of Iraq, sectarian wars and fatalities there increased. While performing a visit to his daughter, Young had seen a photograph of a wounded US veteran newspaper on a transport plane to Germany, and realized that the same paper devotes only a few actual coverage to the story, he can not get a picture of his head, realizing the suffering caused by the family by war has not really registered him and most Americans are not directly affected by him. Young cries, and immediately takes out his guitar and starts writing several songs at once. Within a few days he had completed the work and assembled a band. He then says he has been holding back for a long time from writing protest songs, waiting for younger people, with a different perspective, but nothing seems to say anything.
Most of the songs of this album reprimanded the Bush administration's policies by examining human costs for soldiers, their loved ones and civilians, but Young also included several other themes, and a direct protest titled, "Let's Wear the President" , in which he stated that Bush had lied to lead the country into war. Young Lyrics in another song called Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who did not declare his intention to run for president at the time and was widely unexpectedly able to win a Democratic nomination or a general election, as a potential replacement for Bush. That summer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & amp; Young reunited to support the "Freedom of Speech Tour '06", where they played new Young protest songs alongside older group material, met with enthusiasm and anger from different fans, some of whom supported Bush politically. CSNY DÃÆ' Â © jÃÆ' Vu , a concert film from a tour directed by Young himself, was released in 2008, along with an accompanying live album.
Although Young was never familiar with eco-friendly lyrics, the themes of spirituality and activity of environmental activists became increasingly prominent in his work throughout the 1990s and 2000s, notably at Greendale (2003) and Live with War (2006). This trend continued in 2007 Chrome Dreams II , with lyrics exploring Young's personal eco-spirituality. Also in 2007, Young received an invitation to participate at Goin 'Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino , contributing his version of "Walking to New Orleans".
A young relic on the board of directors of Farm Aid, an organization he co-founded with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp in 1985. According to his website, it is the longest concert benefit series in the US and has raised $ 43 million since the first benefit concert in 1985. Every year-old Young Gentlemen and performed with renowned guest artists including Dave Matthews and producers including Evelyn Shriver and Mark Rothbaum, at the Annual Agricultural Assistance concert to raise funds and provide grants to farming families and prevent foreclosures, provide crisis hotlines, and create and promoting home grown farm food in the United States.
In 2008, Young revealed his latest project, production of a 1959 Lincoln hybrid engine called LincVolt. A new album loosely based on the Lincvolt project, Fork in the Road , was released on April 7, 2009. The album, partly comprised of love songs to the car, also commented on the economic crisis, with a narrator attacking the funds Wall Street bailouts came into force in late 2008. Unfortunately, the car burned down in November 2010, in a California warehouse, and along the way it burned a $ 850,000 collection from Young's collection of Young rock and roll memorabilia. Initial reports indicate a fire may be triggered by an error in the vehicle's plug-in charging system. Young blames fire on human error and says he and his team are committed to rebuilding the car. "The wall filling system is not fully tested and never left behind, mistakes made - it's not the fault of the car," he said.
A Jonathan Demme concert film from the 2007 concert at Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, called the Neil Young Trunk Show aired on March 21, 2009, at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. It was featured at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2009 and was released in the US on March 19, 2010 for critical acclaim. Young became a guest star on the Potato Hole album, released on April 21, 2009 by Memphis organ player Booker T. Jones, from Booker T. & amp; MG fame. Young played the guitar on nine of the ten instrumental tracks, alongside Drive-By Truckers, which already has three guitar players, giving some songs on a total of five guitar tracks. Jones contributed the guitar on several songs.
Young continues to tour extensively. In 2009, he became the title of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England, at Hard Rock Calling in London (where he was joined on stage by Paul McCartney to perform "A Day in the Life") and, after years of unsuccessful bookings, the Isle of Wight Festival in addition to performances at Big Day Out festivals in New Zealand and Australia as well as the Primavera Voice Festival in Barcelona.
Young has become a vocal opponent of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, which will run from Alberta to Texas. When discussing the environmental impact on oilands Fort McMurray, Alberta, Young insists that the area now resembles the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the World War II atomic bomb attacks. Young refers to issues surrounding the use of oil pipelines as "scorns in our lives". In an effort to become more involved, Young has worked directly with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to draw attention to this issue, conduct charity concerts and talk openly about the issue. In 2014, he plays four shows in Canada dedicated to the Honor the Treaties movement, raising money for the legal defense fund Athabasca Chipewyan. In 2015, he and Willie Nelson held a festival in Neligh, Nebraska, called Harvest the Hope, raising awareness of the impact of tar sands and oil pipelines on Native Americans and family farmers. Both received awards from the leaders of the Rosebud, Oglala Lakota, Ponca and Omaha, and invested in holy buffalo robes.
Young participated in the Blue Dot Tour, hosted by diverse environmentalist David Suzuki, and toured all 10 Canadian provinces along with other Canadian artists including Barenaked Ladies, Feist and Robert Bateman. Young's intention to participate in this tour is to raise awareness of the environmental damage caused by tar sand exploitation. Young believes that the amount of CO2 released as a by-product of tar-sand oil extraction is equivalent to the amount incurred by the total number of cars in Canada each day. Young has faced criticism by representatives from the Canadian petroleum industry, who argue that his statement is irresponsible. Young's opposition to the construction of an oil pipeline has affected his music as well. The song, "Who Will Stand?" written to protest the issue, and display the lyrics "Fossil fuel tires and draw lines/Before we build another pipeline".
In addition to directly criticizing members of the oil industry, Young has also focused on blaming the actions of the Government of Canada for ignoring the conclusions about the environmental impacts of climate change. He referred to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as "embarrassing to many Canadians... [and] a very bad replica of the George Bush administration in the United States." Young has also been critical of Barack Obama's government for failing to uphold the promises made about environmental policy during his election campaign.
In criticism of the Starbucks chain Starbucks and their possible involvement with Monsanto and the use of GM foods, he recorded "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" in protest. The song is included in the concept album called The Monsanto Years .
Recent years (2010s)
On January 22, 2010, Young performed "Long May You Run" in the last episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. On the same night, he and Dave Matthews performed Hank Williams's "Alone and Forsaken" song, for Hope for Haiti Now: Global Benefits for Earthquake Relief charity telethon, in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Young also performed "Long May You Run" at the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In May 2010, it was revealed that Young began working on a new studio album produced by Daniel Lanois. It was announced by David Crosby, who said that the album "will be a very sincere note.I hope this will be a very special note." On May 18, 2010, Young embarked on a North American solo tour to promote his upcoming album, Le Noise , playing a mixture of old songs and new material. Although billed as a solo acoustic tour, Young also plays some songs on electric guitar, including Old Black. Young continued his Twisted Road tour with a brief East Coast effort during the spring of 2011. Young also contributed vocals to Elton John-Leon Russell's The Union album, singing a second stanza on the "Gone to Shiloh" track and providing backing vocals.
In September 2011, Jonathan Demme's third documentary about singer-songwriter Neil Young Journeys premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Like the previous Demme work with Young, most of the film consists of live shows that were filmed, in this case, Young's homecoming event in May 2011 at Massey Hall Toronto, four decades after he first played in an iconic place. Playing old songs, as well as new ones from Le Noise , Young performs solo on electric and acoustic instruments. His appearance was a counterpoint to Demme's recording of Young's return to Omemee, Ontario, a small town near Toronto where he grew up, which has now become unrecognizable physically, although he clearly remembers the events of his childhood there.
On January 22, 2012, the Master Class at the Slamdance Festival features Coffee with Neil Young & amp; Jonathan Demme for their new movie Neil Young Journeys . Report from event by Bob & amp; Kim C. revealed that Neil Young has been recording with Crazy Horse. One album finished and they did another.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse featured a full grunge version of The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" for Paul McCartney's MusiCares Person of the Year dinner on February 10, 2012, in Hollywood.
Neil Young with Crazy Horse released the album Americana on June 5, 2012. It was Young's first collaboration with Crazy Horse since Greendale album and tour in 2003 and 2004. Note is a tribute against an unofficial national anthem which jumped from an uncensored version of "This Land Is Your Land" to "Clementine" and included the version of "God Save the Queen", which Young grew up singing every day at school in Canada. Americana is Neil Young's first full album composed of cover songs. On June 5, 2012, American Song Inventors also reported that Neil Young & amp; Crazy Horse will be launching their first tour in eight years to support this album.
In 2012, Young toured with Crazy Horse before releasing their second album in 2012, Psychedelic Pill , released in late October.
On August 25, 2012, Young was mistakenly reportedly killed by NBCNews.com, the day when astronaut Neil Armstrong died.
On September 25th, 2012, Young Wats Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream autobiography was released for critical and commercial acclaim. Reviewing the book for New York Times , Janet Maslin reports that Young chose to write his memoirs in 2012 for two reasons. For one, he needs to rest from stage performances for health reasons but continues to generate income. For others, he is afraid of dementia, given his father's medical history and his current condition. Maslin gave this book a higher grade than average, describing it as something honest but unique and uninterrupted when describing his relationship and experience in caring for a child with disabilities and his artistic and commercial activities and associations.
In November 2013, Young performed at the annual fundraiser for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Following the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he plays an acoustic set into a crowd that has paid a minimum of $ 2,000 to attend a seat at the famous Paramour Mansion overlooking downtown Los Angeles.
A Letter Home album was released on April 19, 2014, through Jack White's record label, and her second memoir, titled Special Deluxe, is scheduled for release late 2014. She appeared with Jack White on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 12, 2014.
The solo album debuted in 2014 by Chrissie Hynde, titled Stockholm , featuring Young on guitar on the track "Down the Wrong Way".
Young released his thirty-fifth studio album, Storytone on November 4, 2014. The first song released from the album, "Who's Gonna Stand Up?", Was released in three different versions on September 25, 2014..
Storytone followed in 2015 by his concept album The Monsanto Years . The Monsanto Years is a well-themed album in support of sustainable agriculture, and to protest the biotech company Monsanto. Young reached this protest in a series of lyrical sentiments against the production of genetically modified foods. She created this album in collaboration with the sons of Willie Nelson, Lukas and Micah, and also supported by members of Luke's band of Promise of the Real. In addition, Young released a movie together to the album, (also titled "The Monsanto Years"), which documents recorded albums, and can be streamed online.
In summer 2015, Young follows a North American tour entitled Rebel Content Tour. The tour begins on July 5, 2015 at Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ends on July 24, 2015 at the Wayhome Festival in Oro-Medonte, Ontario. Luke Nelson & amp; Promises from Real are special guests for the tour. After the show on September 19, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois, the tour begins on October 1, 2015 in Missoula, Montana and ends on October 25, 2015 in Mountain View, California.
In October 2016, Young appeared in Desert Trip in Indio, California, and announced his thirty-seventh studio album, Peace Trail, recorded with drummer Jim Keltner and bass guitarist Paul Bushnell, released in December.
On September 8, 2017, Young released Hitchhiker, an LP studio recorded on August 11, 1976 at Indigo Studios in Malibu. The album features ten songs recorded by Young accompanied by an acoustic guitar or piano. While different versions of most of the songs have been released before, the new album will include two previously unreleased songs: "Hawaii" and "Give Me Strength," which Young occasionally performs live.
On July 4, 2017, Young released the song "Children of Destiny" which will appear on the next album. On 3 November 2017, Young announced a new album with Promise of the Real - the anti-Trump - to be released on December 1, 2017 titled The Visitor and shared a new song from the song "Already Great".
On December 1, 2017, Young performed live in Omemee, Ontario, Canada, a city he once lived in when he was a child.
On March 23, 2018, Young released the soundtrack album for the movie Daryl Hannah Paradox . This album is labeled as "Special Releases, Volume 10."
On the Day of Record Store, April 21, 2018, Warner Records released a special two-vinyl LP edition of Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live, a double live album from a show that Young performed in September 1973 at Roxy in West Hollywood , with Santa Monica Flyers. The album is labeled as "Volume 05" at Young's Maps Neil Young
Archive project
As far back as 1988, Young spoke in an interview about his attempt to compile unreleased material and to update his existing catalog. The collection is finally titled Neil Young Archives Series. The first installment, titled The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972 , originally planned for a 2007 release but postponed, and was released on June 2, 2009.
Three shows from the Performance Series from the archive were released separately before The Archives Vol. 1 . Live in Fillmore East , a selection of songs from the 1970 show with Crazy Horse, released in 2006. Live at Massey Hall 1971 , a set of solo acoustics from Massey Toronto Hall, see release in 2007. Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968 , an early solo performance and, chronologically, the first disc in the show series, appeared at the end of 2008.
In an interview in 2008, Young discussed Toast , an album originally recorded with Crazy Horse in San Francisco in 2000 but was never released. This album will be part of the Special Edition Series from Archives. No release date currently exists for Cheers . The album A Treasure, with a live song from the 1984-85 tour with International Harvesters, as she was sued by Geffen Records, was released in June 2011.
On July 14, 2009, Young's first solo album was re-released as a remastered HDCD disc and digital download as a 1-4 disc from the Original Series Release from Archives.
Personal life
Young married his first wife, restaurant owner Susan Acevedo, in December 1968. They were together until October 1970, when she filed for divorce.
From late 1970 to 1975, Young was in a long-term relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress. The song "A Man Needs a Maid" from Harvest was inspired by her seeing him in the movie Diary of a Mad Housewife . They met soon after and he moved with him on a new farm in northern California. They have a son, Zeke, who was born September 8, 1972.
Young met his future wife Pegi Young (nÃÆ' Â © e Morton) in 1974 when he worked as a waiter at a restaurant near his ranch, a story he told in 1992's song "Unknown Legend". They married in 1978 and had two children together, Ben and Amber. Ben and Zeke were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and Amber with epilepsy.
Young lives in Broken Arrow Ranch, owned by a thousand acres near La Honda, California, purchased in 1970 for US $ 350,000 in cash; the property was later expanded to thousands of hectares. The couple is a music collaborator and founded the Bridge School in 1986.
On July 29, 2014, Young filed for divorce after 36 years of marriage. He has been in a relationship with actor/director Daryl Hannah since 2014
Young has been widely reported as the godfather of actress Amber Tamblyn; in a 2009 interview with Parade, Tamblyn explains that "godfather" is "just a loose term" for Young, Dennis Hopper, and Dean Stockwell, three of his father's famous friends, who were always around the house as he grew adult, and who has great influence in his life.
Young is an environmental advocate and vocal for the welfare of small farmers, having founded in 1985 a charity concert of aid. He's working on a documentary on electric car technology, while titled LincVolt . The project involves Lincoln Continental in 1959 which converted into hybrid technology as an environmental statement. In 1986, Young
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