In the book, he wrote at length about his family and career and expressed his frustration with the low sound quality of digital music.
Timed with the release of the book, Young announced the founding of Pono Music, originally a new audio format but later simplified to a music player and downloading service designed for audiophiles and listeners who had similar issues with sound quality. A Kickstarter campaign in raised six-million dollars, one of the largest digitally crowd-funded efforts in history, and the company started shipping the devices in the fall of Within a few months, he announced another full-length for , Storytone.
The album was heralded by the release of an environmentally conscious song, "Who's Going to Stand Up? Young 's passion for environmental causes also informed his next album, 's The Monsanto Years , in which he took on the issues of genetically modified crops and agribusiness; the album found him backed by Promise of the Real, a band led by Lukas Nelson , son of outlaw country icon and Young 's close friend Willie Nelson.
Young and Promise of the Real supported The Monsanto Years with a tour, which became the basis for the live double-album Earth. Just after the June release of Earth , Young wrote and recorded the protest album Peace Trail , which appeared in December Young continued his burst of activity in with the release of "Children of Destiny. Also in , Young released two volumes in his Archives series: April saw the release of Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live , which was recorded in , and November brought the release of Songs for Judy , a collection of highlights from his acoustic tour.
Young unveiled another archival release in June , Tuscaloosa , a live set recorded at an Alabama date on the same tour that produced Time Fades Away. Neil Young continued mining his archives in , unearthing the scrapped album Homegrown for an official release that summer, with the long-awaited box set Archives, Vol.
Though the second of his two sets at Carnegie Hall had been widely bootlegged over the years, this release offered previously unreleased recordings of the first set, which found Young playing many songs off his just-released After the Gold Rush LP, as well as performing songs that at that point weren't commercially available yet. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. If Beatles had taken the band in a new direction, another big influences came across Neil this time: Bob Dylan.
He did sound different, almost like Neil. At this time Neil also begins to play the harmonica. Neil established at this time he first relations with the opposite sex, Pam Smith and he were dating several months. Do you mind if I put my name in front of the band? Neil Young wrote at this time a lot of songs and he was looking for opportunities for playing solo. He had an audition for Elektra in New York that failed. The Squiers played electric music, but Neil took one step in a different direction then he sold his Gretsch and bought a twelve-stringed guitar.
The acoustic solo career started with bad reviews and cold public response. At this time Neil got a job as solo guitarist for the band Mynah Birds in Toronto. He also began smoking grass and tried amphetamine.
The band was signed by Motown, but just then a break trough seemed close one of the members was arrested for trying to avoid military service in Vietnam War and the manager died in an overdose of heroine. The band was separated. Neil had to get a usual job.
It was in the inventory of Coles Bookstore in Toronto. He could handle it two weeks before giving up. Neil was looking for gigs as a solo artist, but had difficulties finding them. He also knew that Stephen Stills, who he had met in Toronto, was in L. In the spring of , he and four other friends leaved Toronto and crossed the US border. The destination was L. In the beginning he and his friends earned a living by give lifts to hippies from different parties.
They got 50 cents for a drive. This biography of Neil Young does not cover his whole life and career. That's not funny. There's love there. There's just nothing else there. Never happen, no, not in a million years. In , Young split with Pegi, his wife of 36 years. He has since been romantically linked with Splash star and environmental activist Daryl Hannah. Former bandmate David Crosby slammed Young online, and called Hannah a "purely poisonous predator.
Crosby later apologized. I have screwed up massively," he said. Where do I get off criticizing her? She's making Neil happy. I love Neil and I want him happy. Can you get me in a country club out here? But his golfing interests began much earlier: as a child, Young lived across the street from a golf course and sold balls he found to the golfers there. You can't see them anyway. They are taking pictures from behind trees. You can't think about that. Young still takes on new musical challenges.
In , he released his album Storytone , which he recorded live with a piece orchestra with no overdubs. That's what my producer David Briggs always said. You only have one shot at a time and you can't go fix it. I knew where I wanted to go with the songs, and the orchestra had charts and an arranger and everything," he said in an interview.
Shortly after Young joined CSNY, they played Woodstock — and Young was so furious with the cameramen on the stage that he refused to let them film him.
Use zoom, dickhead. We were playing music and there's some jerk standing there in black clothes. We're playing music, get out of there. In , Young released The Monsanto Years , a concept album that targets agribusiness — and in particular, the multinational agrichemical company Monsanto.
A film documenting the recording process was also released. The album garnered reviews from raves — including a perfect five stars from the Guardian — to faint praise. Needless to say, Monsanto was none too pleased. Unfortunately, for some of us, his current album may fail to reflect our strong beliefs in what we do every day to help make agriculture more sustainable," read a statement from the company. Young admits that he can have a quick temper, and that he has broken off many relationships with little warning.
At one point he was on tour with Stephen Stills, and decided to end it. But instead of talking with Stills, he simply left and famously sent Stills a telegram that read, "Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach, Neil. Young has always written politically-fuelled songs, and his song "Ohio" is one of the most famous. He penned it in response to the Kent State massacre on May 4, , where four student protesters were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen.
It's an embarrassment to many Canadians. As a Canadian, I felt like I had a chance to do something by bringing this together. Young also travelled to First Nations territories to meet with the people who are most affected by oil sands development.
And the smell started 25 miles away from the tar sands and got more intense. My son who has cerebral palsy and has lung damage, he was wearing a mask to keep the toxic things in the air out of his lungs. Young's anti-tar sands stance both won accolades from environmentalists, and cries from some of his longtime fans who weren't of the same opinion.
In fact, I'm very gentle with them. I don't think I have to break a guitar to get a violent sound. In one of the more odd rock world match-ups, Young joined forces with Devo in Young's film Human Highway , a comedy set in a gas station diner next to a nuclear power plant, where the employers and customers are unaware that it's the last day on earth. Young plays Lionel Switch, the garage mechanic, while Dennis Hopper was the cook. In , Young released Everybody's Rockin' , an album of rockabilly songs and covers that he recorded with the Shocking Pinks.
It was just 25 minutes long, but it wasn't because Young was lacking material. Rather, his record label was so angry at how uncharacteristic the sound was that they cancelled the record sessions and simply released what they had. At the time, the album was widely panned, and was a commercial flop, but the song "Wonderin'" and its vintage car-heavy video are oddly unforgettable.
Young takes his music very seriously, but he also has a sense of humour. Earlier this year, he joined Jimmy Fallon for a duet with himself. Despite the fact that he has lived in Northern California since the s, Young has retained his Canadian citizenship.
His first was his self-titled album, released on his 23rd birthday in Suffering from epilepsy, Type 1 diabetes and polio, by his health had deteriorated so far that he was unable to walk.
Following the split, Robert stayed with his father in Toronto and Rassy relocated to Winnipeg with the teenage Young, who by this time was far more interested in his musical pursuits than he was in academics.
Over the next few years, he would play with several bands before forming the folk-rock group the Squires in Intent on a career as a musician, he dropped out of high school and started performing at clubs and coffeehouses in the area, first with the Squires and later as a solo act. While making his rounds on the Canadian folk circuit, Young began to rub elbows with other up-and-coming Canadian musicians, including fellow folk singer Joni Mitchell and rock band the Guess Who.
He also met Stephen Stills during this time and briefly joined a band called the Mynah Birds, which included future funk star Rick James on bass.
The group managed to win a contract with the legendary Motown label in but disbanded before they could finish their album. They released their debut, self-titled album in December , and it managed to crack the charts. The band soon attracted a large following and was acclaimed for its experimental and skilled instrumental pieces, inventive songwriting and harmony-focused vocal composition. Young signed with Reprise Records in and released his self-titled debut to mixed reviews, though it hinted at the originality and willingness to experiment that would define his body of work.
But just as he reached this early peak, Young was faced with one of the more difficult periods in his life. At the end of , Young and his girlfriend, Academy Award-winning actress Carrie Snodgress, had a son, Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy, and Snodgress had to set aside her acting career to care for him.
A few months later, shortly after being fired by Young before their upcoming tour, Crazy Horse guitarist Dan Whitten died of an drug overdose.
The second half of the decade would prove to be a more positive one for Young, who teamed up once more with Stephen Stills to record Long May You Run , which reached No.
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