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Neil Young (2006)

Neil Percival Young , OC , OM , (born November 12, 1945 in Toronto ) is a Canadian musician , singer-songwriter and filmmaker . Since January 2020 he has also been a US citizen .

His career began in 1966 with the band Buffalo Springfield , and his music spans a variety of genres including rock , country and folk . In the more than 50 years of his career, he won two Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice (solo and with Buffalo Springfield) . He is revered on the one hand as an important folk musician and on the other hand as the “Godfather of Grunge ”.

Neil Young joins a. with the band Crazy Horse , but also as a solo artist and with many other artists, especially with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . His most commercially successful track is Heart Of Gold .

Life

childhood

Neil Young was born in Toronto in 1945 to Scott Young (1918-2005) and his wife Rassy Ragland Young . His father was a respected sports journalist and author of numerous books, including Neil & Me (1984) about his relationship with his son. Neil spent his early years in Omemee, a rural community in Kawartha Lakes in the province of Ontario .

In 1951 there was a polio epidemic , and Neil Young developed polio at the age of five, as did eight-year-old Joni Mitchell . His left half of his body was permanently damaged, which has resulted in a slightly limping gait to this day. He later processed the memories of this time in the song Helpless . From the mid-1960s, epilepsy and diabetes were added. He spent a year in New Smyrna Beach , Florida , to recover.

When he was twelve years old, his parents divorced. He then moved with his mother to Winnipeg , Manitoba , the original home of their family. Scott Young had five daughters from two other marriages, including the singer-songwriter Astrid Young (* 1962), who sang on the 1992 album Harvest Moon and in various live performances.

Until 1968: First years and with Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield, right Neil Young (1966)

In the early 1960s, Neil Young played in various local bands (e.g. The Jades) in Winnipeg. He also recorded some songs - the single The Sultan / Aurora was released in 1963 with the group The Squires. Like most of the songs that the teenager Neil Young wrote at the time, both songs were instrumentals and based on the sound of his idol at the time, The Shadows . In the following years until 1966 he slowly developed into a folk interpreter, and there were repeated studio recordings with The Squires in Canada, as well as solo and with the Mynah Birds (with Rick James ) in the USA, all of which remained unpublished at the time.

After his performances and recordings were unsuccessful, he moved to Los Angeles after a short stay as a solo artist in Toronto in 1966 , where he soon afterwards founded the band Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay , for which he played well-known pieces such as Mr Wrote Soul , Broken Arrow and On The Way Home . Buffalo Springfield quickly became a leading band in the emerging folk scene in California in the mid-1960s, recording the successful albums Buffalo Springfield (1966) and Buffalo Springfield Again (1967). After the third album Last Time Around (1968), the band broke up due to ongoing disputes among the band members. Neil Young preferred to pursue a career on his own from now on. In 1997 Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame , including Neil Young .

1968–1981: Solo, with Crazy Horse and with CSNY

Neil Young, 1976

In late 1968 he recorded his first solo album Neil Young and toured North America with his songs in 1969. Shortly afterwards he founded the group Neil Young & Crazy Horse with the three musicians Danny Whitten , Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina from the band The Rockets. Their first album together, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, was released . The album placed extremely well on the US Billboard 200 charts. In addition to the successful single Cinnamon Girl , it also included the rock classics Down By The River and Cowgirl In The Sand , with which he made his long sprawling guitar solos famous. Today it is hailed by many as the first grunge rock album in history. Neil Young wrote the three named songs on a day when he was in bed with a fever of 39 degrees.

He also played with Crosby, Stills & Nash , including their second joint appearance in front of an estimated 400,000 people at the legendary Woodstock Festival . He joined the trio for the first time for a short time and released the successful album Déjà Vu with them in 1970 and the live album 4 Way Street a year later . During this time he wrote the classic Helpless and Country Girl for CSNY , among others, and the protest song Ohio , which is about the killing of four unarmed students by the National Guard and was released as a single just a few weeks after the event. Young reportedly wrote the text a few hours after seeing a photo of the massacre. Almost at the same time he recorded another solo album, After The Gold Rush (1970), which became his first album that was also successful in Europe. With a song choice between gentleness, e.g. B. the title song After The Gold Rush , and the rocking Southern Man , the album was stylistically very mixed.

In 1971, Neil Young had to undergo a back operation, which was necessary as a late consequence of his polio infection in 1951. Since he could not stand and play electric guitar for long periods of time, he used acoustic guitars. During this time he wrote his biggest hit Heart Of Gold . The song was released on his best-selling album Harvest (1972), which also includes the folk classics Old Man and The Needle And The Damage Done .

Neil Young has shown great musical versatility over the years, which is also manifested in the large number of his publications. He played folk and country in constant alternation with rock music or with experimental albums. In the same year as Harvest, the soundtrack album Journey Through The Past was released for his somewhat confused feature film of the same name. At that time he also founded his film production company Shakey Pictures with which he still makes his films to this day. A year later the rock-heavy album Time Fades Away (1973) was released from concert recordings. The album again shows a different face of Neil Young and is far less commercially oriented, although Harvest and Time Fades Away were recorded with the same backing band, The Stray Gators.

The depressed mood that dominated his music for the next few years was largely due to the deaths of roadie Bruce Berry and Crazy Horse guitarist and singer Danny Whitten . The album Tonight's The Night , which was completed in 1973 but only released in 1975, processed these experiences. Most of the songs were written when Neil Young, Ben Keith , Nils Lofgren , Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina retired to a recording studio for several days and recorded the songs in a very intoxicated state. In between (1974), On The Beach, an equally dark album was released. On the other hand, there was a good-humored, extremely successful tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the same year. A live box for this was only released 40 years later under the title CSNY 1974 .

In 1975 the second album with Crazy Horse was released. In Zuma , which was best known for the piece Cortez The Killer , Frank "Poncho" Sampedro replaced the late Danny Whitten on second guitar. After the joint album Long May You Run (1976) with Stephen Stills under the name The Stills-Young Band, American Stars' n Bars was released in 1977 , which includes Like A Hurricane, perhaps his most famous rock song, which he still has today performs at many concerts with long guitar improvisations. He then completed the first 10 years of his work (1966–1976) with the publication of the compilation Decade .

The album Comes A Time offered the Harvest sound again in 1978. He ended the 1970s with the acclaimed album Rust Never Sleeps , on which the A-side was recorded acoustically and the B-side was recorded distorted and cracking with Crazy Horse - it starts softly with My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) and ends with the hymn Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) . Rust Never Sleeps was named Album of the Year by Rolling Stone . In addition, there was the live double album Live Rust and the film Rust Never Sleeps , recorded in the Cow Palace in San Francisco . Neil Young himself directed this concert film as Bernard Shakey . He has since used this pseudonym in many other films.

After he was allowed to put together the soundtrack with Bill Murray for the film satire Where The Buffalo Roam (1980, dt. Blast - Wo die Büffel Roam ) and also added a few sound compositions of his own, a phase of experimentation began for him, heralded by that of many Hawks and Doves (1980), which fans were suspicious of patriotically, played one side acoustically and the other rock, here in country rock style, based on Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home . Another Crazy Horse album followed in 1981 , Re · ac · tor , which was less successful with its futuristic design and sometimes crude lyrics ( Got mashed potatoes / ain't got no T-Bone ).

1982–1987: Years of Crisis - the "Geffen Era"

In 1982 Neil Young moved to Geffen Records , for which he recorded five albums by 1987, which aroused much displeasure among critics and fans. First the album Trans was released in 1982 , which is said to be one of his favorite works, but irritated many of his followers. He created a synthesizer sound, the sound of which was deliberately influenced by the German electronic band Kraftwerk . His voice he had on some pieces by Sennheiser VSM 201 - Vocoder alienate. Young explains in his autobiography that he produced the album without commercial interests for his son, who suffers from infantile cerebral palsy with communication disorders. In the same year he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame .

In 1983 Young released Everybody's Rockin ', a rockabilly album in the style of the 1950s that had been recorded with a backing band called The Shocking Pinks , which finally earned him the accusation of lack of direction. The country album Old Ways followed in 1985 and another synthesizer album in 1986 with Landing On Water . In 1985, together with John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson, he set up the Farm Aid Festival for the benefit of farmers in need, which has since been held regularly with a large number of stars.

Young's last album, Life , recorded for Geffen Records - again with Crazy Horse - was released in 1987 and was mainly perceived by critics and fans as an upward trend, because the pieces Inca Queen and When Your Lonely Heart Breaks in particular tied on Young's style from before 1982. Financially, however, the decade was a failure for Neil Young. Geffen Records accused him from 1982 that his music was "uncharacteristic" for him and therefore financially unsuccessful, which led to a lengthy process between Geffen Records and the artist, as a result of which Young switched back to Reprise Records .

1988–1997: "Godfather of Grunge"

Neil Young, 1984
Neil Young, 1996

The first album on the new old label ( Reprise ), the rhythm and blues album This Note's For You (1988), brought Neil Young back on track, despite further expansion of his style repertoire. The title song This Note's For You was released from the album . The video that was shot for it was banned from the MTV Network because it contained parodies of advertisements with Michael Jackson , Whitney Houston and others. The decision was later revised. Still, it came as a surprise when the video won the event's top prize at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards . In the same year he kept a promise that when David Crosby was freed from his drug addiction, he would record an album again with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . This is how American Dream came about . CSNY’s only second studio album in 19 years.

With the successful album Freedom (1989), he continued the times of Rust Never Sleeps . Some songs had previously been released on the EP Eldorado that same year . Freedom mixed folk country songs with hard rock songs . The song Rockin 'In The Free World , which was performed acoustically at the beginning and electrically at the end of the album, became the anthem of that time because it masterfully addressed the social grievances in the USA . At the beginning of an alternative rock scene in the USA , Neil Young became a role model for many bands, including Sonic Youth .

Later dubbed the "Godfather of Grunge", he and his house band Crazy Horse released the straight rocking Ragged Glory in 1990 , in which the musicians returned to their old form. In addition, the album was stocked with two newly recorded compositions from the mid-1970s ( Country Home , White Line ). The follow-up was the no less rock-heavy live album Weld (1991), which was also available with a CD called Arc with feedback , guitar noise and song scraps, Young's reference to experimental rock music, comparable to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music . Neil Young protested with Weld against the second Gulf War . So he let out the original war thunder and presented a picture of an oil-smeared bird on the video wall.

In October 1992 the release of Harvest Moon followed , in which Neil Young turned back to quieter country folk . The album was declared part 2 of the so-called Harvest trilogy, which began in 1972 with Harvest . As a backing band, he has also reactivated the band from The Stray Gators. The theme song Harvest Moon was also successfully released as a single . His half-sister Astrid Young also sang on this album . In early 1993 Neil Young released the compilation Lucky Thirteen for his old label Geffen Records . As a result of the legal proceedings, he was still contractually forced to do so. Nevertheless, he made every effort to put together an exceptional song selection with published and unreleased songs, alternative versions and previously unknown live versions from the Geffen era.

Musically , the album Unplugged (1993) goes in a similar direction to Harvest Moon , with which he released one of his numerous acoustic concerts, which he had made since the beginning of his career, as part of an MTV series for the first time . In 1994 Young was nominated for an Oscar for his contribution to the film of the same name Philadelphia (1993) , which Bruce Springsteen won for the song Streets Of Philadelphia from the same film.

Kurt Cobain was a great admirer of Neil Young and had quoted him before his suicide in his suicide note with the line “It's better to burn out than to fade away”, which was originally taken from the acoustic song My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue ) and is occasionally sung live on the rock version of the same song Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) . Young then processed Cobain's death in the Crazy Horse album Sleeps With Angels (1994) and dedicated the title track to him. For the next album Mirror Ball (1995) he teamed up with the grunge rock band Pearl Jam . The result was a massive rock epic with a fresh sound that made it interesting for a younger generation (the band name Pearl Jam could not be mentioned on the CD for legal reasons ). In return, Neil Young could be heard on guitar and organ on the Pearl Jam single Merkinball. The songs I Got Id and Long Road were created in the same recording session as Mirror Ball . Also in 1995, Neil Young was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame .

In the same year there was also a cooperation with the independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch , for whose film Dead Man Neil Young contributed the soundtrack in the form of electric guitar improvisations. The album of the same name followed in early 1996. In the following years, two more Crazy Horse albums were released. The studio album Broken Arrow (1996) and the live album Year Of The Horse (1997), which is perceived as a kind of part 2 by Weld , because it is musically similar and still does not contain a single song by Weld . But that's how classics like When You Dance I Can Really Love and Danger Bird found their way onto the album. The film Year Of The Horse by Jim Jarmusch, which was made around the same time, portrays Neil Young and Crazy Horse and shows various concert recordings.

1999–2010: Reunion of CSNY and alternative projects

Neil Young (2006)

Another CSNY album, Looking Forward, came out in 1999 . Some of the pieces that Neil Young had written for it were originally intended for his quiet solo folk album Silver & Gold (2000). Another live album from this year 2000, Roadrock V. I, contains a 18-minute version of the classic Cowgirl In The Sand , and an adaptation of Dylan -Klassikers All Along The Watchtower (with guest singer Chrissie Hynde ).

Also the 11. September 2001 influenced Neil Young: At the concert America: A Tribute To Heroes he played solo at the piano that John Lennon -Stück Imagine and accompanied Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready in their interpretation of the song Long Road . On his album Are You Passionate? (2002) in the piece Let's Roll, which he wrote shortly after the attack , he also dealt with the events in the fourth 9/11 terrorist aircraft , United Airlines Flight 93 , which presumably hit the White House or the Capitol should crash. Several inmates attacked the kidnappers and brought it down in the open.

In 2003 the Crazy Horse album Greendale was released, a concept album that had previously been played completely live on a solo tour in Europe and a Crazy Horse tour in North America. The story takes place in a fictional small town in which the Green family is embroiled in all kinds of turmoil. It is about crime from corruption to murder, from intrusive tabloid media to environmental issues. Initially supplemented as a double CD with a live solo concert from Dublin, the album was released a year later in a second edition with a making-of and recordings with Crazy Horse. The story has also been released as a feature film in which the musicians and Neil Young himself are the actors . Just like Greendale , the compilation album Greatest Hits was released in 2004 at the request of vinyl fan Neil Young in this increasingly popular form. It sold extremely well and even achieved platinum status in Germany.

In April 2005, Neil Young was treated for a brain aneurysm . The folk-country album Prairie Wind , recorded shortly before its operation in Nashville , was released in late September 2005, along with a DVD about the production of the album. Prairie Wind follows on from Harvest and Harvest Moon in terms of style and theme and thus forms the end of the Harvest trilogy. The following August, songs from the album were performed live along with older songs at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The film Neil Young: Heart Of Gold by Jonathan Demme was made from the recordings . With Prairie Wind began the renewed collaboration with the musicians Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas (as in 1988 with This Note's For You and 1989 with Eldorado and Freedom), which then together with Anthony Crawford, Larry Cragg, Pegi Young and Ben Keith with the he had already worked on many albums since Harvest, formed his Electric Band, which accompanied him for the next tours and albums, ie between 2005 and 2009.

In May 2006, Neil Young released the rock-heavy protest album Living With War, which deals with the US government's Iraq policy in a lyrically critical and attacking manner. This album was previously available on the Internet for free. With the album, he harshly criticized the policies of US President George W. Bush , especially with regard to the Iraq war at the time . Neil Young even called for his impeachment with the song Let's Impeach the President . The song was supported by the trumpet of Tommy Bray, which comes along like a fanfare with which to blow an attack. At least since this album, Neil Young became a real protest singer . Living With War also formed the core of the Freedom Of Speech tour , which Young completed with his old companions Crosby, Stills & Nash. Young processed the controversial reactions to the album and the tour in 2008 in his film CSNY / Déjà Vu , for which the live album Déjà Vu Live was released. He showed himself on stage politically like seldom before. In the film he lets war veterans and relatives have their say.

The long-awaited Neil Young Archives Performance Series started in November 2006 with Live at the Fillmore East , a recording made in New York City in March 1970 with Crazy Horse (with original line-up) as the backing band . Neil Young has since published live recordings of his entire career at irregular intervals, which previously could only be purchased on the market as bootlegs. These have been processed in the best sound quality. By 2019, 11 live recordings had been made in this series.

In 2007 Neil Young released the album Chrome Dreams II again with his Electric Band, a throwback to the never-released Chrome Dreams, which should have been released in the mid-1970s and is now only available as a bootleg . Chrome Dreams II consists partly of newly recorded, unreleased classics such as the 18-minute Ordinary People . From the narrative point of view as an ode to the “little people” and an allusion to the Reagonomics , the song became topical again 20 years later under the Bush administration (Bushonomics) and is reminiscent of Cortez The Killer or Thrasher . Also included is a new boxcar version as well as other catchy new rock compositions like No Hidden Path and Spirit Road .

Neil Young, 2009

Another album followed in 2009, Fork In The Road, again with the Electric Band. The concept album is about the conversion and expansion of his Lincoln Continental into a hybrid electric vehicle , the so-called "LincVolt Project", which Neil Young himself financed and which he also reports on in his autobiography . In the same year he published the box set Neil Young Archives Vol. I, a retrospective of the years 1963–1972, on which he worked for around twenty years. For the design of the box set cover, he finally received his first Grammy in the category "Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package". It is highly unlikely that the long-announced second part will ever appear. Because since 2017 he has published his entire work piece by piece on a website on the Internet.

2010 began with a special honor for Neil Young. It was his job to play his old song Long May You Run at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver while the fire was slowly going out. In September of that year, the album Le Noise, produced by Daniel Lanois , was released , which Young recorded without an accompanying band. For the single Angry World he got a Grammy , this time in the category "Best Rock Song".

From 2011: "A hippie dream" and with Promise Of The Real

In 2011, Neil Young worked on his memoir Waging Heavy Peace, which was published in German in 2012 under the title Ein Hippie-Traum . Here he reports on his life and his current projects, alternating between the present and the past. His "LincVolt project" and the work on the new sound format "PureTone" or " Pono ", which should have studio quality, take up a lot of space . He reports that he stopped consuming alcohol and marijuana for the first time in his life : "My doctor doesn't think that would be good for my brain." At the same time, he says that he had no new songs at the time the book was written can write, but still look forward to new projects.

In 2012 the albums Americana and Psychedelic Pill were released with Crazy Horse . Americana consists exclusively of American folk classics such as Oh Susannah , Tom Dula or Woody Guthries This Land Is Your Land in the typical, guitar-heavy Crazy Horse style. The double album Psychedelic Pill , on the other hand, contains eight new original compositions, including pieces longer than 16 minutes such as Walk Like A Giant, Driftin 'Back and Ramada Inn . The Rolling Stone rated the album of "boorish, 43-year-old GarageBand" and the "last hippie" with four out of five stars. In 2013 a European tour had to be canceled due to a broken finger of guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro. The tour, which continued in 2014, was met with good criticism.

But once again Neil Young was at a completely different point in his work at that time. Because in spring 2014 he released A Letter Home, the most unusual work of his career since Arc . He used when recording 11 cover songs, e.g. B. by Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen , a so-called Voice-O-Graph from 1947, with which one could directly record mono records at the time. The phone booth-like box belonged to the Third Man Records label by Jack White , who also appeared as the only guest musician and co-produced the album.

That summer, after 36 years of marriage, Neil Young filed for divorce from his wife, Pegi Young . His new girlfriend became the actress and activist Daryl Hannah . With the album Storytone (2014) he processed both the breakup with coping songs and the new love with new love songs. Still, Who's Gonna Stand Up? also a political protest song . Neil Young recorded the songs in addition to his piano or guitar playing with a big band or orchestra , making many of the songs sound like swing music or film music . In a second sales option as a double album, the songs can also be heard without a big band and orchestra, which gives these songs a clear folk song character.

In 2014 the collaboration began with Lukas and Micah Nelson, the two sons of country star Willie Nelson , and Lukas' backing band Promise Of The Real. With The Monsanto Years (2015) Neil Young & Promise Of The Real released an album with which he again brought his political engagement to a climax in musical form. He is now openly opposing the agricultural company Monsanto , which is being criticized for its pesticides and GMOs (genetically modified organisms). But other companies such as B. the song A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop are clearly criticized. In 2016, Neil Young followed up with the live album Earth , where he had reworked the 2015 world tour with Promise Of The Real in the studio by adding sounds from nature and civilization to the songs.

In the same year (2016) the solo album Peace Trail followed , with which he released a slightly less ecstatic album, which fluctuated between private and political issues with mixed lyrics, but also with the song Indian Givers against large corporations, which in this case an oil pipeline , the Dakota Access Pipeline , built in the Sioux area, pulled into the field. He is still involved in this matter today by not accepting any companies or banks as sponsors who have supported this pipeline construction. The following year the start of a new album series called the Neil Young Archives Special Release Series . These are previously unreleased albums from his career and special albums that will be produced alongside his normal work in the future. He started with Hitchhiker (2017). This work was recorded purely solo in 1976. It was recorded at the time by longtime producer David Briggs.

The Visitor is then called a new album with Promise Of The Real, which Neil Young also released in 2017. Here he is again taking stronger action against the politically powerful. In the songs Already Great and Stand Tall in particular , he attacks hatred , fascism and sedition in the world and especially in the USA. And yet this album also has a different experimental side, such as the carnival like a carnival . But as early as March 2018, Neil Young allowed the Netflix feature film Paradox to follow another curve in his work. This time it is the musicians of Promise Of The Real, Willie Nelson and Neil Young himself, who cast, while Daryl Hannah acts as the director . It's a western that combines past and present. The Paradox soundtrack came out almost simultaneously.

50 years after their founding and 7 years after their last album together, Neil Young reactivated his house band Crazy Horse again in 2019 . Without Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro, but with his old companion Nils Lofgren on second guitar, who was a member of Crazy Horse for a while in the early 1970s. The rhythm is again provided by Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums). The album Colorado comes in the typical Crazy Horse sound. With the hard Shut It Down and the quiet Green Is Blue he also goes lyrically in the direction of the protest song by addressing climate change here .

On June 19, 2020, Young released the album Homegrown , which he had created and announced 45 years earlier. With the album, the musician processes the failure of his relationship with Carrie Snodgress at the time . After the album was announced in 1975, Young decided to release the rockier Tonight's The Night . Young himself justified the withdrawal from Homegrown with the fact that the songs are too personal for him.

Private

Pegi and Neil Young (2009)

From 1968 to 1970 Young was married to the owner of Canyon Country Kitchen, Susan Acevedo. With the actress Carrie Snodgress (1945-2004) he had a relationship from 1971 to 1975, from which a son comes. In 1978 he married Pegi Morton (1952-2019). With her he also has a son (* 1978) and a daughter (* 1984) who works as a visual artist. In July 2014, Neil Young filed for divorce from Pegi Young after 36 years of marriage . Since then he has been in a relationship with actress Daryl Hannah . They married on August 25, 2018, as confirmed in November 2018.

Both sons developed infantile cerebral palsy . In 1986, Neil and Pegi Young established the Bridge School Foundation, which offers children with disabilities an education. For this foundation, a concert was held every year in October from 1986 to 2016, at which well-known artists such as Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , Tom Petty , Elvis Costello , Metallica and many others performed. The musicians and bands played almost exclusively with acoustic instruments .

In March 2005, Young underwent an operation for a life-threatening brain aneurysm after discovering impaired vision during admission. After the operation, he had to be reanimated because the blood vessel that had been operated on had ruptured again and this probably led to a cardiac arrest . The following April he was able to perform again at the Canadian Live 8 concert.

Political

Since 2006, Young has been the holder of the Order of Manitoba , the highest honor in the Canadian province of Manitoba . He has supported a number of projects to improve the condition of the indigenous people in North America . In 1978 and 2018 his home in Malibu near Zuma Beach burned down in forest fires in California .

As of January 2020, Neil Young has both Canadian and US citizenship . He had applied for this so that he could vote against the previous President Donald Trump in the presidential election in November 2020 . During the 2020 US election campaign , Donald Trump used music by Neil Young several times. Young forbade him each time and wrote him an open letter on July 6, 2020 after three of his songs were used at a campaign event in front of Mount Rushmore . He stands on the side of the Indians (who claim Mount Rushmore for themselves) and is working to ensure that Trump is voted out in November 2020. In August 2020, he filed a lawsuit against Trump's campaign team in a district court in New York for the use of his songs Rockin 'in the Free World and Devil's Sidewalk in several campaign appearances by US President Donald Trump.

style

Neil Young played a variety of styles of music throughout his career. Starting with typical The Shadows instrumentals as a teenager, he first developed into a folk singer who also came to folk rock and folk country rock through the influence of Buffalo Springfield .

Eventually he developed his own style, which, detached from rigid arrangements, gave him the freedom for folk, folk rock and country rock, but quickly led him to hard garage rock , later referred to as grunge rock . Long guitar improvisations became his trademark, which - especially with live performances - can sometimes last up to 30 minutes and often break the guitar strings at the end, with intentional feedback noises on top. Although you have to point out that he taught himself to play the guitar.

With studio recordings, the rock songs are usually only recorded a few times, and then the best work is simply selected. This contrasts with the intended perfection in the recordings of quieter folk country albums, which should simply come across in flawless harmony. It is not uncommon for such recordings to take a whole day for a single song.

All of the above He offers styles with both electric and acoustic instruments. In addition to his main instrument, the guitar , he also regularly plays the piano , organ and harmonica , and occasionally harmonium , banjo or ukulele . When playing the acoustic guitar, he mostly plays flatpicking and riffs ( My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) , The Needle And The Damage Done , Old Man ). Since his approach to grunge , there have been excessive solo passages, especially at concerts .

Since the 1960s and 70s, Young has also been known for repeatedly playing his songs, which were originally published acoustically, also electrically - and vice versa.

Limited to the 1980s, there are also a few experimental albums in which he has used other musical styles , such as B. Synthy-Pop , Rockabilly , Country-Music and Rhythm & Blues .

Instruments and equipment

Neil Young 2008; he plays his Gibson Les Paul, which he calls "Old Black"

Neil Young has used numerous electric guitars, acoustic guitars including ukuleles and banjos as well as various keyboard instruments and harmonica in the course of his career. It is therefore difficult to make a complete list.

In the days of Buffalo Springfield, he primarily played a 1960 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins. With Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but also with other bands, a White Falcon from the same company is often used.

Neil Young has often played a 1953 Gibson Les Paul since 1968. This instrument, which he dubbed “Old Black”, is still his main electric guitar today . It is a gold top that was sprayed black by a previous owner and later fitted with a Bigsby Vibrato by Young . The neck pickup from "Old Black" is a P 90 single coil . The bridge pickup he mostly plays on is a mini humbucker from a Gibson Firebird and tends to be microphonic . He usually uses it when aggressive feedback sounds are required. It is noteworthy that the frets on this guitar are very flat. After Young's guitar technician Larry Cragg replaced the heavily played old frets for him, he had to file the new ones down as far as possible to make Young happy again. In addition, the string position is set very flat, so that the strings buzz on the fingerboard when you hit harder.

Neil Young mainly uses a 20 watt Fender Tweed Deluxe with a C12N Jensen speaker as an amplifier . He acquired the 1959 amp in 1967. Young also owns “a whole shed full” of old Fender amplifiers, which he mainly uses as a spare parts store.

The amplifier is controlled remotely with the help of a device called “Whizzer” invented by Young, which operates the amplifier potentiometers by means of electric motors and thus allows preset settings to be called up. For effects he uses an MXR Analog Delay , a Mu-Tron Octave Divider, a Boss BF-1 Flanger , a Tube-Echoplex Tape Echo and an Alesis MicroVerb, among others. The effects are hardwired to avoid losses in the signal path.

When it comes to Neil Young's acoustic guitars , a Martin D-28 from the 1940s is particularly noteworthy. The guitar used to belong to Hank Williams , who played it on his last appearance in 1951 in the Grand Ole Opry . This guitar is the theme of the film Heart Of Gold (2006). Young also uses a very old Martin D-18. He recorded the albums Harvest and Comes A Time with a Martin D-45, which he got from Stephen Stills in 1969 . Young used to use Guild on 12-string guitars, but has since switched to Taylor (Model 855).

An old upright piano is essentially used as the keyboard instrument . You can also often see him at a baby grand piano that was painted by his daughter Amber. His harmonium , an Estey Pump Organ, from 1885, with which he brings a church sound to his music, is also known. He uses classic blues harps as harmonica.

Neil Young uses a "flying keyboard" in his band in the song Like A Hurricane , which is decorated with artificial wings and lowered to the stage on wires. It is played floatingly by one of his musicians, often at Crazy Horse by Frank “Poncho” Sampedro. The instrument is a 1974 Crumar Univox Stringman synthesizer.

Some stage decorations also have a tradition at Neil Young. His life-size wooden Indian, which is almost always on stage, is known. The wind machine that makes his concerts appear to be in a storm is just as ubiquitous.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
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1968 Neil Young - - - - - -
First published: November 12, 1968
1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - - - UK-
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Movies

Young is involved as a director (under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey), author, actor, producer or executive producer or cameraman or he composed the music in the following films, which have been released on video or DVD . Films to which he only contributed individual songs are not listed. The name given after the year denotes the director, unless Young himself directed. Films that consist exclusively or mainly of live recordings as well as music video compilations are also marked.

  • Year of the Horse , D / EP / M / L (1997, Jim Jarmusch )
  • Silver and Gold , D / E / M / L (2000, LA Johnson )
  • Neil Young Friends and Relatives: Red Rocks Live , D / M / L (2000, LA Johnson )
  • Live at St. Vicar , D / P / M / L (2003, Ned O'Hanlon)
  • Greendale , R / D / P / A / K / M (2003)
  • Prairie Wind , R / M / L (2005)
  • Heart of Gold , D / P / M / L (2006, Jonathan Demme )
  • Living With War - In The Beginning , P / R / M (2006)
  • Neil Young Archives No. 2 - Live At The Fillmore East 1970 , D / R / M (2006)
  • Neil Young Archives No. 3 - Live At Massey Hall 1971 , D / R / M (2007)
  • CSNY Déjà Vu , R / A / D (2008)
  • Neil Young Journeys , D / M / L (2012, Jonathan Demme )

Pono

Together with the Silicon Valley entrepreneur John Hamm, Young founded Pono Music in 2012 . The aim was to develop the music download service Pono, which made high-resolution music (24 bit / 96 kHz, 24 bit / 192 kHz) available that could be played on a specially developed device. Pono used the free audio format FLAC , a codec for lossless audio data compression.

The sale of the Pono Player, which appeared in stores in 2015, was stopped again in 2016 and finally stopped completely in 2017. As Neil Young later announced, Pono had not found acceptance for the device among music labels .

Others

In 1974 the band Lynyrd Skynyrd made clear reference to Neil Young and his earlier statements about the American southern states in their song Sweet Home Alabama . The song is a direct response to Neil Young's songs Southern Man and Alabama , with which he heavily criticized the southern states and especially the state of Alabama for their racial policies. Lynyrd Skynyrd wanted to counteract this with their lyrics by also pointing out the good side of Alabama.

In the 2002 novel "The Book of those killed by Neil Young", the later winner of the Peace Prize of the German book trade, Navid Kermani, describes in detail the effect that Young's music had on him and his daughter when she was unable to fall asleep as a baby due to three-month colic . Since 2019, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg has been staging the novel in its own production under the title "The night of those killed by Neil Young".

In 2007, the biologists Jason Bond and Norman Platnick named a spider species from the mygalomorphic family of Cyrtaucheniidae, newly described in the United States and native to the US state of Alabama, after Neil Young: Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi . They paid tribute to him for his social commitment to peace in the course of his musical career.

2009 Neil Young as "The Last Hippie, still different," number 79 of the 100 people who change America magazine Rolling Stone selected.

In 2009, Neil Young was mentioned several times in the song Canada by the Belgian singer Milow . In the song Milow tells of a young singer who emigrates to Canada and wins Young as his best friend.

On February 28, 2010, Young played at the closing ceremony of the XXI. 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver during the extinction of the Olympic flame the song Long May You Run .

In 2015, in the run-up to the US presidential election, a song was played by Young during the announcement of Donald Trump's candidacy . Young, who supported Bernie Sanders , publicly contradicted this playback, whereupon Trump called him a "hypocrite".

The Rolling Stone ranked Young 34th of the 100 greatest musicians , 37th of the 100 best singers and 17th of the 100 best songwriters and 100 best guitarists of all time . This makes him one of eight artists who are represented in all of these four lists.

literature

Several books have been written by various authors about the life and work of Neil Young. Young himself has published the following books:

Neil Young Archives

Since December 1, 2017, the musician has made all his published and even several unreleased songs available for streaming on the Neil Young Archives homepage . The service was available free of charge until the end of June 2018. A small fee has been due for this since 2019. The two oldest songs in the archive are his first two recordings from July 23, 1963 the B-side Aurora and the A-side The Sultan of his first single with The Squires.

On March 28, 2020, Young announced that his archive page would be accessible free of charge for the duration of the corona pandemic . He gave the reason that people are so isolated during the Corona crisis. For the same reason, the musician also offers a few concert recordings with the "Fireside Sessions", in which he gives short concerts live in front of his home fireplace.

Web links

Commons : Neil Young  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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