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Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter and musician. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), A…
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“What does the M in MTV stand for: music or money?”
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The Guardian: Football Daily | Brian Madjo and the tendency to lump expectations on young shoulders
The Guardian: Australia’s brightest young talents are on the move and it bodes well for the Socceroos | Jack Snape
Far Out Magazine: CMAT picks out Neil Young’s worst song on ‘Subway Takes’: “Big f*cking stinker”
Published video “Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Second Song (Official Lyric Video)”.
Published video “Second Song”.
Published video “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”.
Published video “Neil Young - Roger and Out - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Mission Accomplished - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Restless Consumer - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Families - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Flags of Freedom - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Let's Impeach the President (V3) - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - After The Garden - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Looking For a Leader - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Neil Young - Living With War - Living With War 2026 (Official Video)”.
Published video “Fallen Angel (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “Big Green Country (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “Downtown (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “Act of Love (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “Scenery (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “I'm the Ocean (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “Peace and Love (2025 Remaster)”.
Published video “What Happened Yesterday (2025 Remaster)”.
The Guardian: Neil Young gifts Greenland free access to his music and withdraws it from Amazon over Trump
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29”.
Young announced on his website his decision to remove his music catalog from Amazon Music in protest of Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, whom he accused of supporting a U
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The Guardian: Neil Young confronts Donald Trump in new song Big Crime: ‘Don’t want soldiers on the streets’
The Guardian: Neil Young review – ragged glory from a noisemaker who never treads the easy path
The Guardian: Charli xcx and Neil Young to Juan Atkins and the Asian underground: what to see at Glastonbury
Released album “Talkin to the Trees”.
Released album “Coastal”.
The Guardian: Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah
The Guardian: Neil Young says he may be barred from returning to US over Donald Trump criticism
The Guardian: Neil Young rejects dynamic pricing for concert tickets, credits the Cure’s Robert Smith for decision
The Guardian: Glastonbury 2025: the 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo to headline
The Guardian: Neil Young confirms he will headline Glastonbury after ‘error in information’ prompted him to pull out
The Guardian: Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury 2025, claiming festival is ‘under corporate control’ of BBC
Released album “Oceanside Countryside”.
Released album “Neil Young Archives, Vol. III (1976–1987)”.
Released album “Neil Young Archives, Vol. III: Takes”.
Released album “Early Daze”.
Released album “Dume”.
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25”.
Released album “All Roads Lead Home”.
Young criticized Ticketmaster's practice of raising ticket prices and adding fees
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Rolling Stone magazine ranked Young No
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Released album “World Record”.
Released album “Toast”.
Released album “Ten Songs for You”.
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 13, 14, 20 & 21”.
Snopes rated the claim “As of January and February 2022, Pfizer owned Neil Young's song catalog or held sway over him and dictated his views on COVID-19 vaccination.” False.
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USA Today rated the claim “Nine artists are pulling their music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young” Partly False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In a 1985 interview with Melody Maker, musician Neil Young said of AIDS and gay men, “It is scary. You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”” Correct Attribution.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Joni Mitchell, Pearl Jam, Dolly Parton are removing their music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young.” False.
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Released album “The Mojo Collection (10 Classic and Rare Neil Young Tracks)”.
Young posted an open letter threatening to remove his music from the audio streaming service Spotify if it did not remove the Joe Rogan Experience podcast
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Released album “Barn”.
Released album “Archives, Vol. II: 1972–1976”.
Young filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Trump's reelection campaign for the use of his music at campaign rallies
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Released album “Homegrown”.
Released album “Colorado”.
Young unveiled "Milky Way", the first song from Colorado, a love ballad he had performed several times at concerts – both solo acoustic and with Promise of the Real
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Young and Crazy Horse announced the release later that month of the song "Rainbow of Colors", the first single from the album Colorado, Young's first new record with the band since 2012's Psychedelic Pill
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Released album “Tuscaloosa”.
Released album “Acoustic Electric”.
Released album “Songs for Judy”.
Young released a live version of his song "Campaigner", an excerpt from a forthcoming archival live album, Songs for Judy, which features solo performances recorded during a November 1976 tour with Crazy Horse
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Released album “Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live”.
Released album “Paradox”.
Released album “The Visitor”.
Released "Already Great", a song from The Visitor, an album he recorded with Promise of the Real and released on December 1, 2017
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Young released Hitchhiker, a studio LP recorded on August 11, 1976, at Indigo Studios in Malibu
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Released album “Hitchhiker”.
Young released the song "Children of Destiny", which appeared on his next album
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Released album “Toronto 1973”.
Released album “Live Broadcast”.
Released album “Peace Trail”.
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 8.5–12”.
Released album “Earth”.
Released album “Bluenote Café”.
Released album “The Monsanto Years”.
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 5–8”.
Released album “Storytone”.
Through Jack White's record label, and his second memoir, Special Deluxe, which was released on October 14
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Released album “A Letter Home”.
He moved out and gave Pegi Young the ranch after their divorce in 2014.
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Released album “Live at the Cellar Door”.
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for After the Gold Rush (2013).
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That Young "almost certainly regrets that horrific statement" and that he "quickly moved away from right-wing politics"
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Released album “Psychedelic Pill”.
Young's autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream was released to critical and commercial acclaim
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American Songwriter reported that Young and Crazy Horse would be launching their first tour in eight years in support of the album
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Released album “Americana”.
Released album “Time Fades Away / Where the Buffalo Roam”.
For two reasons: he needed to take a break from stage performances for health reasons but continue to generate income; and he feared the onset of dementia, considering his father's medical history and his own present con
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Awarded Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Le Noise (2011).
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Awarded Juno Award for Artist of the Year (2011).
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Awarded Juno Humanitarian Award (2011).
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Released album “A Treasure”.
Released album “Le Noise”.
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2010).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (2010).
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Young embarked upon a North American solo tour to promote his then upcoming album, Le Noise, playing a mix of older songs and new material
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Released album “Dreamin’ Man Live ’92”.
Released album “Official Release Series Discs 1–4”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972 (2009).
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Released album “Live at the Riverboat”.
Released album “Early Years (1963–1968)”.
Released album “Archives, Vol. I: 1963–1972”.
And was released in the US on March 19, 2010, to critical acclaim
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Released album “Fork in the Road”.
At the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas
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Young headlined the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England, at Hard Rock Calling in London (where he was joined onstage by Paul McCartney for a rendition of "A Day in the Life
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Released album “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968”.
Released album “Chrome Dreams II”.
Released album “Live at Massey Hall 1971”.
And other shows as official bootlegs in 2021 and 2022, as a part of Young's Archive series
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Released album “Live at the Fillmore East”.
Awarded Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Prairie Wind (2006).
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Awarded Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award (2006).
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Awarded Americana Award for Artist of the Year (2006).
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Awarded Order of Manitoba (2006).
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Released album “Living With War”.
And was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010
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Released album “Prairie Wind”.
“I plan to continue to use this government approved and regulated fuel exclusively from now on to prove that it is possible to deliver the goods anywhere in North America without using foreign oil, while being environmentally responsible.”
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Greendale (A Film By Neil Young)”.
Released album “Greendale”.
Released album “Greendale Live at Vicar St.”.
Young released Greendale, a concept album recorded with Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina
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Released album “Are You Passionate?”.
Released album “Mystery Train”.
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2000).
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Released album “Silver & Gold”.
Released album “Road Rock, Volume 1: Friends & Relatives”.
And were both accompanied by live concert films
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Young renewed his collaboration with the rock band Phish, sharing the stage at the annual Farm Aid concert and then at Young's Bridge School Benefit, where he joined headliners Phish for renditions of "Helpless" and "I S
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Released album “Year of the Horse”.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Young did not appear at the ceremony, writing in a letter to the Hall that their presentation, which was aired on VH1, "has nothing to do with the spirit of Rock
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Released album “Broken Arrow”.
Released album “Dead Man”.
Released album “Mirror Ball”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995).
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Young and his manager Elliot Roberts founded a record label, Vapor Records
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Released album “Live and Rare”.
As a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield
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For the live-in-the-studio album Mirror Ball and a tour of Europe with the band and producer Brendan O'Brien backing Young
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Released album “Sleeps With Angels”.
Awarded Juno Award for Album of the Year for Harvest Moon (1994).
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Young again collaborated with Crazy Horse on Sleeps with Angels, a record whose dark, somber mood was influenced by Kurt Cobain's death earlier that year: the title track in particular dealt with Cobain's life and death
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Released album “Unplugged”.
Released album “Lucky Thirteen”.
Released album “Harvest Moon”.
Released album “Arc”.
Released album “Weld”.
Released album “Ragged Glory”.
Released album “Freedom”.
Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year (1989).
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Featuring covers by a range of alternative and grunge acts, including Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Soul Asylum, Dinosaur Jr, and the Pixies
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Released album “This Note’s for You”.
By appearing in the Steven Kovacs film '68
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Released album “Life”.
And rehearsals for his 1989 Saturday Night Live appearance
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Released album “Landing on Water”.
Released album “Old Ways”.
“Cała moja muzyczna edukacja to dwie lekcje gry na gitarze.”
“Nie wiem, dlaczego do tej pory nikt nie zauważył, że ze mnie dowcipny gość.”
“We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man.We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.We got department stores and toilet paperGot styrofoam boxes, for the ozone layer.Got a man of the people, says keep hope aliveGot fuel to burn, got roads to drive.Keep on rockin' in the free world. (ang.)”
“Opis: Kurt Cobain użył tego cytatu w liście pożegnalnym.”
“You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin”
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His first unproductive year since beginning his career with Buffalo Springfield in 1966
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Released album “Solo Trans”.
Released album “Everybody’s Rockin’”.
Though little seen, was the long-gestating Human Highway
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Released album “Trans”.
Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1982).
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Released album “Re·ac·tor”.
Released album “Hawks & Doves”.
Released album “Live Rust”.
Released album “Rust Never Sleeps”.
Released album “Comes a Time”.
Much of the filming was done for Young's film Human Highway, which took its name from a song featured on Comes a Time
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On the lengthy Rust Never Sleeps tour, in which he played a wealth of new material
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Released album “Decade”.
Young also released the compilation Decade, a personally selected set of songs spanning every aspect of his work, including a handful of previously unreleased songs
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Released album “Chrome Dreams”.
Released album “American Stars ’n Bars”.
Young performed with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and numerous other rock musicians in the high-profile all-star concert The Last Waltz, the final performance by The Band
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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 midway through by Young, who sent Stills a telegram that read: "Funn
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Released album “Zuma”.
Released album “Tonight’s the Night”.
Young reformed Crazy Horse with Frank Sampedro on guitar as his backup band for his eighth album, Zuma (November 10, 1975)
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Sold poorly, as had the previous albums of the "ditch" trilogy, and received mixed reviews at the time, but is now regarded as a landmark album
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Released album “On the Beach”.
Released album “Time Fades Away”.
Shortly after he was fired from the tour preparations, Whitten was found dead of an apparent alcohol/diazepam overdose
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Released album “Journey Through the Past”.
Released album “Harvest”.
Released album “After the Gold Rush”.
And later performed at the famous Woodstock Festival, during which Young skipped the majority of the acoustic set and refused to be filmed during the electric set, even telling the cameramen: "One of you fuckin' guys com
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Released album “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”.
That Ochs was "on the same level with Dylan in my eyes
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Released album “Neil Young”.
While in Toronto, he joined the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds
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Young toured Canada as a solo artist
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Upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Pickering (1956) and then lived for a year in Winnipeg (where he would later return) before relocating to Toronto (1957–1960)
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Born 1945-11-12.
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Young himself was born in Toronto, Ontario, and lived there at various times in his early life (1945, 1957, 1959–1960, 1966–1967), as well as Omemee (1945–1952) and Pickering, Ontario (1956) before settling with his mother in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1958, 1960–1966), where his music career began and which he considers his "hometown".
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The family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a "sleepy little place"
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In Winnipeg, Manitoba, and moved to Toronto shortly thereafter where their first son, Robert "Bob" Young, was born in 1942
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