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  Neil Young
In the early 60s Young kicked around on the Ontario and upstate New York rock circuit, working for a while with a very young Rick James; he then moved to California and by 1966 was, with Steve Stills, a leader of the influential Buffalo Springfield.
Young's intense performance holds one's interest even on the ragged, neurotic, over-long solo acoustic number "Last Trip To Tulsa." The material has a pleasantly familiar sound, deviating from the Buffalo Springfield's formula only in that Young was no longer able to utilize Richie Furay's fantastic harmony vocals.
Young gave the band two tunes and matched them with youthful guitarist Nils Lofgren and crusty pianist/producer Jack Nitzsche, who in turn brought in Ry Cooder - Nitzsche's acquaintance from Rolling Stones sessions - to lay on some slide guitar.
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  Neil Young - Music Downloads - Online
Young's body of work ranks second only to Bob Dylan in terms of depth, and he was able to sustain his critical reputation, as well as record sales, for a longer period of time than Dylan, partially because of his willfully perverse work ethic.
Throughout his career, Young alternated between these two extremes, and both proved equally influential; there were just as many singer/songwriters as there were grunge and country-rock bands claiming to be influenced by Neil Young.
Young decided to push his Geffen contract to the limit, releasing the electronic Trans, where his voice was recorded through a computerized vocoder, later that year.
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 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Neil Young sued by writer
Rock star Neil Young is being sued for $1.8m (£1.1m) by a writer who claims the singer prevented him from publishing his biography.
Young's spokesman Bob Merlis said he was unaware of the action and was unable to comment on it.
The proceedings state the writer was given the "artistic freedom" to work on the book, entitled Shakey: The Biography Of Neil Young, with the agreement subject only to the artist's right to request edits or changes to sections that may have been sensitive to his family.
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Although Young maintains he had a happy childhood he contracted polio when he was 6 and throughout his teenage years he suffered the disintegration of his parents' marriage.
Young's tenure in this seminal "west coast" act was tempered by several "sabbaticals", but two luxurious, atmospheric compositions, "Broken Arrow" and the Jack Nitzsche-arranged "Expecting To Fly', established the highly sculptured, orchestral-tinged sound prevalent on his debut solo record, 1969"s Neil Young.
Young affirmed this regeneration with Ragged Glory, a collaboration with Crazy Horse marked by blistering guitar lines, snarled lyrics and a sense of urgency and excitement few from his generation could hope to muster.
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 Neil Young
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers.
Young’s solo career took flight in 1969 with Neil Young, an album of pretty, brooding songs that included “The Loner.” This singer/songwriter debut was one of the first solo albums by a rock and roll figure, and it quietly presaged a major direction that music would take in the Seventies.
July 16, 1975: Neil Young’s ‘Tonight’s the Night,’ an inspired by and dedicated to a pair of musical acquaintances who died of drug overdoses, is released.
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 MySpace.com - Neil Young - US - Rock - www.myspace.com/neilyoung
I hope that this show is still on, my wife was able to purchase this trip to see Neil due to a very good year that her family farm had, as my birthday present, 12/27.
Neil, you still have the grace, and inspiration to play new styles.
Neil, you are my absolute favorite of all times.
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 CMT.com : Neil Young : Neil Young: The Nashville Sessions
Young's first solo album for the label, the self-titled Neil Young, kicked off with a country instrumental titled "The Emperor of Wyoming," a light-hearted ditty emphasizing the fiddle and Young's twangy Gretsch guitar sound set to a country backbeat.
Neil called me and wanted me to sell him one of my guitars or help him find one." At the time bluegrass musician and instrument dealer Taylor was sitting on one of Williams' guitars, which he acquired from a Nashville area gun shop.
Young continued to move pretty much in the rock world for the next five years, playing large halls and genre-hopping from techno-pop, rockabilly and then a head-on country assault.
www.cmt.com /artists/news/1473043/06202003/young_neil.jhtml   (2238 words)

  
 Neil Young: Still Crazy Horse After All These Years (NY Rock)
As for the rest of the album, the line-up includes such Young cronies as Pearl Jam and twangmeister Tom Petty, along with Beck, Bowie, Bonnie Raitt, and the Pretenders (who cruise through a sweetly swinging "Sense of Purpose").
Young, inspired by his own son's disabilities, set up the first of these shows (along with his wife Pegi) in 1986 to raise money for kids with similar speech and physical shortcomings.
As for the future, it's tricky to predict what Young will emerge with next – his four-decade-long career has taken more detours than the I95 – but it's unlikely it will be anything less than fascinating.
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 God Bless Neil Young
Young backs up his lyrics with Bush's own words, turning his inspid/Orwellian diatribe on tape against him as the song is transformed from a hard rocker into a soaring gospel inspirational.
Neil Young is a guy who, like many, was sucked into the phony patriotism after 9/11, rallying around Bush and speaking out in favour of the PATRIOT act.
Young himself has said "I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up...I waited a long time.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/april2006/220406_b_Young.htm   (896 words)

  
 Neil Young
Neil Young was incredibly prolific during his first ten years; the songs on Decade draw from fourteen studio albums, as well as previously unreleased tracks.
Neil Young was largely absent from the musical mainstream of the 1980s, experimenting with guise albums that were largely unsuccessful.
The noisy and subdued aspects of Young's spectrum are also expressed by the two alternate versions of Rockin' in the Free World which bookend Freedom: a conventional rocker and the acoustic live version with a crowd that is too busy cheering along to the ironic chorus to listen to the social commentary of the verses.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Neil Young: Music: Neil Young   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Released in early 1969, Neil Young's first solo album is essentially an extension of "Broken Arrow" and "Expecting to Fly", his two most inventive contributions to Buffalo Springfield.
Neil Young's first solo record is quite a bit different from the sound he would later develop--not that anyone could ever know what to expect from this mercurial visionary.
Neil Young's debut solo album is a remarkable record, which must have been cruelly over looked when it was released in 1969.
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 Neil Young Tickets - Neil Young Tickets Available
A Neil Young tour schedule is available to show the dates of all the concerts during the tour to help find when they will be coming to your town.
Young was first encouraged to play music when his father gave him a ukulele for Christmas in 1958.
Neil moved to Winnipeg with his mother in 1960 where he eventually dropped out of high school and focused on his music He started out in the band, Neil Young and the Squires.
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 LIVING WITH WAR TODAY
Neil Young has not only solidified his already massive fan base by releasing a gem of an album with "Living With War", but has garnered many new fans, namely those opposed to what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But it is unfair to claim that Young's album is limited to unsubtle bashing of the Bush administration; he is in fact quite keen on coming to terms with what war means for everyone in the world.
Young has offered a critical and uplifting voice for a generation, and at this point in his career it is almost hard to consign him to one particular musical genre.
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 Comes A Time - A Neil Young Page
Many Neil Young's songs manage to be both hard and catchy, and his music provides surprising contrasts.
Neil Young was born in Toronto, Canada, on November 12, 1945.
Whitten, a close friend of Young's who'd given him early encouragement in his career, had been due to go out on tour with the band, but was too heavily dependent on heroin to cope.Young sent him home and the same night Whitten died of an overdose.
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 Neil Young
Young classics "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In the Sand" bookended the album which showcased his deeply personal approach to the electric guitar, an approach that is unique, powerful and sometimes maddening.
Nestled in the middle are two quintessential Neil Young songs: the poignant acoustic gem, "Star of Bethlehem" with Emmylou Harris on reverb-laden harmony; and the soaring, Dylanesque "Like a Hurricane," which has gone on to become a concert standard.
Neil and Crazy Horse went on the road in early 1990, and recorded a three-disc set of squalling feedback and amplified-to-the-max songs dubbed Arc-Weld, released in early 1991.
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 CNN.com - Neil Young treated for 'dangerous' aneurysm - Apr 1, 2005
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rocker Neil Young was treated for a "dangerous brain aneurysm" this week but is expected to make a full recovery, his agent said Friday.
Young began experiencing problems in New York nearly three weeks ago, on March 14, after he performed with The Pretenders at their induction ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Young had to cancel his performance Sunday at the Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys.
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 Amazon.com: Living With War: Music: Neil Young   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics, you can't help but be daunted by the intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months.
Young typically produces either "plugged" or "unplugged" albums, in the former having been one of the major influences on grunge, punk, and indie rock, while in the latter a major influence on alt-country and folk rock.
Young has always been quite outspoken in his opinions and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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 Free Neil Young Music Online, Music Downloads, Music Videos and Lyrics - Rhapsody Online
Throughout his extraordinary career, Neil Young's Americana-rooted songwriting has dipped into a staggering variety of styles and tones.
With Freedom and Ragged Glory, Young made a valiant return to form in the late '80s and early '90s before recapturing acoustic peace with Harvest Moon, his 1992 release that many view as the sequel to his heroically pastoral 1972 album Harvest.
True to form, Neil Young is one of the only songwriters in the world who can approximate the sound of a heart breaking with his voice.
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 Amazon.com: Greatest Hits: Music: Neil Young   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Young is one of the finest, and he's been doing what he does best for several decades now.
Young has had a long and excellent musical career over the years, with a number of variations in his sound.
Neil Young was one of the seminal singer/songwriters of the sixties and early seventies, and his works capture the era of protest and baby-boomers coming of age.
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 Neil Young - Harvest
Well, Neil Young has finally graced us with a new album and, as was expected, it's a gem.
Young continues to write original and memorable tunes, many of which have an air of familiarity to them; that's due to his atypical distinctive style.
Difficult because, while Neil's mournful songs are for the most part simple and affecting, they are often rich in poetic suggestion and melodic charm.
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 Amazon.ca: Harvest: Music: Neil Young   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Neil was in severe back pain as I understand it, during the writing of this album.
Young is also an epileptic (as am I) there are lyrics in "man Needs a Maid like -"my life is changin in so many ways- dont know who to trust anymore" that mirror my felings about the alienation and fear epilepsy's changes can bring on.
Niel young doesnt always want you to know what he's writing about and he sertianly does not give a damn if you happen to know (or misinturpret for that matter).
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 Rock On The Net: Neil Young
It was reported that Young had been treated for a brain aneurysm in New York and expected to make a full recovery.
The mission of the concerts was to raise awareness of the on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure the G8 leaders to take action by doubling aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade justice for Africa.
Young performed on Shelter From The Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast - a benefit program shown on all the major networks simultaneously to raise money for those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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 Neil Young: Prairie Wind: Pitchfork Record Review
Yet Young's music is so rooted in the past, specifically the spirit of the 60s, that his stabs at contemporary relevance sound awkward and even curmudgeonly, as on "No Wonder" when he refers to "America the Beautiful" as "that song from 9/11" and quotes Chris Rock.
But maybe Young is aware of it: "I try to tell the people," he sings on the title track, "But they never hear a word I say/ They say there's nothin' out there but wheat field anyway." He sounds pretty frustrated, but Prairie Wind mostly is frustrating.
The second live release in Neil Young's long-awaited and now briskly paced Archives series, is a stark, fragile solo performance, an abrupt shift from last year's Live at Fillmore East, a disc of barnstorming distortion-pedal epics recorded with Crazy Horse.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/y/young_neil/prairie-wind.shtml   (703 words)

  
 Neil Young: Silver And Gold - PopMatters Music Review
When several tracks were first assembled, Neil met up with his CSNY partners and offered them some songs for their album (four wound up on Looking Forward).
That his records successfully gestate in such a manner is nothing new for Young, who's always had a fairly liquid catalogue of material to play with and draw from.
Although Silver And Gold finds Neil Young further on down the road, he's yet to show signs that the well is even getting shallow, let alone drying up.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/y/youngneil-silver.shtml   (669 words)

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