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Toronto, Canada (1960 – present)

Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation. Young was born in Toronto, but moved to the family home of Winnipeg as a child, which is where his music career began. 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 later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969 (forming Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles.

According to Don’t Be Denied Songfacts, the 16-year-old Neil was raising chickens and selling the eggs, with plans to go to Ontario Agricultural College and be a farmer. Only his leisure activities foretold his future, when he would hide from his family problems in his room with his transistor radio playing local station CHUM. From this, Young learned admiration for Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and of course Elvis Presley. In 1958, his father bought Neil his first music instrument, a plastic ukulele. His father would later recall, “He would close the door of his room… and we would hear plunk, pause while he moved his fingers to the next chord, plunk, pause while he moved again, plunk.”
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  • madboy

    <3

    18 May 5:34pm Reply

  • rdedmd

    Shot some great close-up vids from the U.S. leg of the most recent Tour, Check em out if you like - http://youtu.be/a1V82qxvASw - http://youtu.be/5juTeCPbRtE - http://youtu.be/mIc7NHtl7SU

    8 May 6:45am Reply

  • charlieflies

    a piece i wrote that discusses Neil Young's "Tired Eyes": http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/peepshow-creature-where-did-you-get-those-eyes-a-song-for-4-different-kinds-of-eyes/

    8 May 2:09am Reply

  • SGA121

    Hi to EVERYBODY!!! Listen to our instrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMI6aZtKppU

    4 May 7:25pm Reply

  • Otomo72

    http://revolutionblues.wordpress.com/

    3 May 6:03pm Reply

  • HardRokas

    .....what

    3 May 1:46pm Reply

  • kayto1996

    try listening to live rust or rust never sleeps, both live albums from his crazy horse days and i think you'll see where i'm coming from.the needle and the damage done does it for me.Zuma was a crazy horse album where on the beach was solo.if your in a on the beach vibe try hawks and doves, though i prefer re-act-or

    1 May 6:43am Reply

  • Funeral_Opolis

    I'm not familiar enough with his work, or his work with Crazy Horse, to form an opinion on that I guess. All I know is that Zuma might be my favorite. Tonight's the Night is fucking great, Harvest is a classic, and as I said before, I'm really digging On the Beach. So that's up in the air for me.

    1 May 2:55am Reply

  • DinoDyl

    Bandit is an epic song!

    30 Apr 7:19pm Reply

  • kayto1996

    bit of an open discussion on neils influence on the punk scene,for me neil wanders off into country,country and western too much as a solo artist.i think crazy horse brings out the best in him, that's just my personal opinion.

    30 Apr 5:53am Reply

  • Funeral_Opolis

    i don't know what you guys are talking about, but I just picked up On the Beach and it's great.

    30 Apr 3:47am Reply

  • kayto1996

    not sure that influences from previous bands are always the case,it is possible to simply re-invent and come up with things attributed to other artists but found through different roots.interesting u mention the mc5 coz they were invented and had unfocused aggression like the pistols on stage.certain things make sense at certain times,so i believe that not all music is influenced by obvious comparative artists, the just got to the same idea as one another.any hoo time to call this to an end as in my experience we'll get flack for taking up the' shout box space'.ha ha

    29 Apr 5:40pm Reply

  • NeilTheRockGuru

    it is true that proto punk was labelled only after punk emerged to the rock scene and it was considered as garage rock before. early punk artists may claim that they have created something original thats not hugely influenced by the black music... which rock n roll and it's sub genres such as hard rock, psychedelic, metal etc clearly were and punk community took pride in that it came mainly from the white (trash culture), but fact to the matter is... everything has been influenced by the previous generation and it would be foolish to deny that. i would find hard to believe if any of the members from pistols hadn't been exposed to the likes of the stooges or mc5 prior to forming the band

    29 Apr 12:00pm Reply

  • kayto1996

    its funny, those sixties bands you mention -never heard of punk, a name that basically was put on them after the punk scene had happened.we like to give everything a genre,mostly based on our perceptions.the mid seventies punk scene has to be our starting point though,which was why i called it a british phenomena.bands that came later were a progression and although embracing the early ideals they took things off to levels not concidered in those early days, albeit a natural progression,thatcher and her govt ,'the establishment were really the only focus back then. as for kurt well probably closer to punk than neil-but again same values coming in

    29 Apr 5:43am Reply

  • NeilTheRockGuru

    certainly not saying his influence was a major one in the punk scene but u can't say that he had absolutely none. ofcourse the style of music is completely different so its a no brainer that if i wanted to argue where punk came from, i would mention the early proto punk or garage bands in the 60s. where is the fine line between punk and its sub genres? kurt considered his band as a punk band and didn't see it as alternative or grunge. goes same for nowave bands, post punk bands in that era. many artists in this genre pointed neil as an influence even though it was a minimal influence, it is one nonetheless. not talkin only about the early punk scene here which u seem to be getting at

    28 Apr 6:34pm Reply

  • kayto1996

    just to clarify ,i am a fan of neil's but more his crazy horse stuff, not a folk or country and western fan.i lost interest with the punk movement when bands progressed into vegetarianism,feminism etc as i'm not a believer in forcing people into extreme views .i also think that when you complain that you need a constructive' alternate solution, and not just say 'its wrong and i want anarchy,as such

    28 Apr 11:21am Reply

  • kayto1996

    Sorry bro, i think you overrate his influence completely.It is true that the so called second coming of punk became very much the same as the hippie movement in a lot of ways,eg vegetarianism feminism,peace etc but with a fuck you attitude, but neil really had no influence of this.if anything the punk culture, in the beginning was against the hippie culture ,but became the new hippies in some ways. bands like the ramones,new york dolls were the inspiration.they were rebelling against the music industry promoting long 'boring songs' and wanted to get back to the three minute tunes like mowtown had.Malcom maclaren picked up on this but gave it ,its own style, coz the ramones looked like bikers. So he and his partner could sell clothes hence 'the great rock 'n' roll swindle.much as i love neil the early punks hated his style of music. it was the pistols that were focused against thatcher originally, the others followed.

    28 Apr 11:08am Reply

  • NeilTheRockGuru

    what i meant was punk not as a genre but the punk itself. kayto as you would know who lived in that era, punk became a culture which was more than a genre of a music. it was the attitude that neil had towards the punk which not many from his hippie generation appreciated it, but rather got offended by the whole punk culture and saw it as a threat. the infamous tonights the night tour he did in the uk after the album release couldn't get more punk which reminds me of johnny rotten's on stage persona which he might have got influenced by. he collaborated in the early 80s with bands such as devo and later with sonic youth and they were all influenced by neil which speaks the volume imo. but as for the music genre, i forgot to mention he also influenced post rock scene in the 90s.

    27 Apr 1:19pm Reply

  • haloedeyes

    i don't think i ever really 'got' neil young till i heard this. might have posted it before but i think it's worth another post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pzeYdkSr8s

    27 Apr 4:52am Reply

  • edwinarcher

    neil young will save the world

    27 Apr 4:39am Reply
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