Heart of gold
Heart of Gold is a song by Neil Young from his 1972 album Harvest and is the only number one hit of his long musical career.
background
The song, in which James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt participated as backing singers, is one of a series of gentle acoustic pieces that can be traced back in part to the musician's back surgery, which became necessary as a late consequence of his polio infection in 1951. Young couldn't stand and play an electric guitar for long at the time. Therefore, he played acoustic guitar, which he could also play while sitting.
The song was recorded as part of the sessions for the 1971 album Harvest at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville , Tennessee . Ronstadt and Taylor were in Nashville at the time to appear on Johnny Cash's television program , and the album's producer, Elliot Mazer, hired them as backing vocalists.
Cover versions
The song has been covered several times, including by Johnny Cash , Willie Nelson , Tori Amos , Sheryl Crow , Roxette , Dave Matthews , Matchbox Twenty , Richard Lloyd , Bettye LaVette , Zakk Wylde , Carla Cook , Stereophonics , Rockapella , Jimmy Buffett , Bela B. . , Charles Bradley , James Last Orchestra and Boney M. , as well as in German with the title "Herz aus Gold" by Stefan Waggershausen .
reception
The music magazine Rolling Stone put the song at number 297 on their list of the 500 best songs of all time .
CBC Radio One voted Heart of Gold the third best Canadian song of all time in 2005.
Heart of Gold is also the title of the concert film that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival . It was directed by Jonathan Demme , who isalso a produceralongside Ilona Herzberg and Tom Hanks .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neil Young: A Hippie Dream. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04477-5 , p. 37.
- ↑ McDonough, Jim, Shakey , Random 2002, pp. 352-354, here p. 370.
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↑ Neil Young's Heart of Gold: The Man, The Myth, The Legend . Thrasher's Wheat - A Neil Young Archives, accessed June 21, 2016.
Elliot Mazer: Neil Young's Heart of Gold. In: Mix. Primedia Business Magazines and Media, May 1, 2001, archived from the original on November 22, 2004 ; accessed on June 21, 2016 . - ↑ The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . Rolling Stone , December 9, 2004, accessed June 21, 2016.