Profile
Neil Young
Singer-songwriter
Male
Born
Nov 12, 1945
Age
67
Hometown
Toronto
Genres
Hard rock + Rock ...
Instruments
Neil young + Mart...
Performed With
The Mynah Birds +...
Record Label
Motown
Other Names
Young, Neil Percival
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and… Read More
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Romance
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Pegi MortonMarried 1977
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Susan AcevedoMarried 1968 - 1970
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Pegi YoungMarried
Family
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Neil Young
Age 67
parents
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Edna YoungMother, Age 95
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News + Updates
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Mike Ragogna: A Conversation With Blind Melon's Christopher Thorn, Plus Premieres By Drop Out Orchestra And Party PoliceHuffington Post - Apr 24, 2013
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Dennis Miller: Willie Nelson: American IconHuffington Post - Apr 15, 2013
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Russ Blinch: Why Don't We Tax Carbon Like We Tax Cigarettes?Huffington Post - Apr 12, 2013
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Summer Music Festival PreviewHuffington Post - Apr 10, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
Shortly after Neil's birth in 1945, the family decided to move to the rural town of Omemee, Ontario, which Neil would later fondly describe as a "sleepy little place".
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1951
5 Years Old
Young was diagnosed with diabetes as a child, and also suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario.
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1952
6 Years Old
Following his recovery, the Young family went on holiday to Florida in the United States in 1952, and upon returning to Canada soon decided to move away from Omemee and into the city of Toronto, before relocating to Pickering, which was just east of Toronto, and then again to north Toronto soon afterward.
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TEENAGE
1960
14 Years Old
When Neil was twelve, his father, who had been having a number of extra-marital affairs, left his mother, and she subsequently asked for, and received, a divorce some years later, in 1960.
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1965
19 Years Old
In 1965 Young toured Canada as a solo artist.
TWENTIES
Shortly after the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Young reunited with Stephen Stills by joining Crosby, Stills, & Nash, who had already released one album as a trio. Young was originally offered a position as a sideman, but agreed to join only if he received full membership, and the group – winners of the 1969 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award – was renamed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
1970
24 Years Old
In the autumn of 1970, Young began a solo acoustic tour of North America, during which he played a variety of his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY songs on guitar and piano, along with material from his solo albums and a number of new songs.
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1971
25 Years Old
With CSNY splitting up and Crazy Horse having signed their own record deal, Young's tour, now entitled "Journey Through the Past", continued into early 1971, and its focus shifted more to newer songs he had been writing; he famously remarked that having written so many, he could not think of anything to do but play them.
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On September 8, 1972, the actress Carrie Snodgress, with whom he had been living, gave birth to Neil Young's first child. (The boy, Zeke, was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy.) Young fell in love with Snodgress after seeing her in a movie, Diary of a Mad Housewife; Young wrote about this experience in the song "A Man Needs a Maid". (Snodgress sued Young in 1983 for child support and was awarded $10,000 per month and $300,000 on a home for mother and child.) Originally, for example in his Massey Hall concert, Young had played a fragment of another new song, "Heart of Gold," as part of "A Man Needs a Maid," but eventually, he separated the songs. "Heart of Gold," now played on guitar and harmonica, was released as the first single from Harvest, became a US number one single and remains the only No. 1 hit in his long career. "Old Man" was also immensely popular.
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THIRTIES
In 1978 much of the filming was done for Young's film Human Highway, which took its name from one of the album's songs.
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Young's next album, 1983's Everybody's Rockin', included several rockabilly covers and clocked in at less than twenty-five minutes in length.
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1984 was the first year without a Neil Young album since the start of Young's musical career with Buffalo Springfield in 1966.
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FORTIES
The addition of a brass section provided a new jazzier sound, and the title track of 1988's This Note's For You became Young's first hit single of the decade.
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In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Young revived the song in concert, often dedicating it to the Chinese students who were killed in the massacre.
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Still enamored with the grunge scene, Young reconnected with Pearl Jam in 1995 for the live-in-the-studio album Mirror Ball and a tour of Europe with the band and producer Brendan O'Brien backing Young. 1995 also marked Young's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he was inducted by Eddie Vedder.
FIFTIES
2001
55 Years Old
His 2001 single "Let's Roll" was a tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks, and the effective action taken by the passengers and crew on Flight 93 in particular.
2002
56 Years Old
At the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" benefit concert for the victims of the attacks, Young performed John Lennon's "Imagine" and accompanied Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready on "Long Road", a Pearl Jam song that was written with Young during the Mirrorball sessions. "Let's Roll" was included on 2002's Are You Passionate?, an album mostly composed of mellow love songs dedicated to Young's wife, Pegi, backed by Booker T & the MGs.
In 2003, Young released Greendale, a concept album recorded with Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina.
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Young began using biodiesel on the 2004 Greendale tour, powering his trucks and tour buses with the fuel. "Our Greendale tour is now ozone friendly," he said. "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."
LATE ADULTHOOD
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On July 14, 2006, Young was awarded the Order of Manitoba, and on December 30, 2009, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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The trend continued on 2007's Chrome Dreams II, with lyrics exploring Young's personal eco-spirituality.
2008
62 Years Old
The album, partly composed of love songs to the car, also commented on the economic crisis, with one narrator attacking the Wall Street bailouts enacted in late 2008.
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Young's most recent album appearance was on the album Potato Hole, released on April 21, 2009 by Memphis organ player Booker T. Jones, of Booker T. & the MGs fame.
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On January 22, 2010, Young performed "Long May You Run" on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Young continued his Twisted Road tour with a short East Coast venture during spring 2011.
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On January 22, 2012, the Master Class at Slamdance Festival featured Coffee with Neil Young & Jonathan Demme for their new film Journeys.
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