Neil Young - Wikipedia. Neil Young. Young in 1. Background information. Birth name. Neil Percival Young. Also known as. Bernard Shakey[1][2]Born(1.
November 1. 2, 1. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Origin. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Genres. Occupation(s)Musician, singer- songwriter, producer, director, screenwriter, humanitarian, entrepreneur.
Instruments. Years active. Labels. Associated acts. Websiteneilyoung. Neil Percival Young, OCOM[3][4] (born November 1. Canadian singer- songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. After embarking on a music career in the 1. Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others.
Young had released two solo albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1. Buffalo Springfield. From his early solo albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums, sometimes warring with his recording company along the way.
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The latest news articles from Billboard Magazine, including reviews, business, pop, hip-hop, rock, dance, country and more. L.A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. Life and career Early years (1945–1966) Neil Young was born on November 12, 1945, in Toronto, Ontario. Watch In Their Skin HD 1080P. His father, Scott Alexander Young (1918–2005), was a. Check out Rolling Stone's latest political news and features covering today's hottest political topics and Matt Taibbi's take.
Young's often distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics[5][6][7] and signature tenor singing voice[8][9] transcend his long career. Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and electric versions in others.
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His gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1. Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real. Young directed (or co- directed) films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1. Rust Never Sleeps (1. Human Highway (1.
Greendale (2. 00. CSNY/Déjà Vu (2. 00. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia (1. Dead Man (1. 99. 5). Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice: as a solo artist in 1.
Buffalo Springfield.[1. In 2. 00. 0, Rolling Stone named Young the 3. He has lived in California since the 1.
Canadian citizenship.[1. He was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 1. Officer of the Order of Canada on December 3. Life and career[edit]Early years (1. Neil Young was born on November 1. Toronto, Ontario.[1.
His father, Scott Alexander Young (1. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland "Rassy" Young (1.
Daughters of the American Revolution.[1. Although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Young's parents married in 1. Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, Robert "Bob" Young, was born in 1.
Shortly after Young's birth in 1. Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a "sleepy little place". Young suffered from polio in 1.
Ontario (the Canadian singer- songwriter Joni Mitchell, then aged nine, also contracted the virus during this epidemic).[2. After his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
In 1. 95. 2, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in popular music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had had several extramarital affairs, left his mother. His mother asked for a divorce, which was granted in 1.
Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, while his brother Bob stayed with his father in Toronto."Neil bopped down Yonge Street. Very thin, very tall, with a greased- back D. A. on the sides but a crew cut on top. He had a transistor radio, white bucks, a nice sweater, black pants. Very slick- lookin' guy."—Comrie Smith, Young's teenage friend.
During the mid- fifties, Young listened to rock 'n roll, rockabilly, doo- wop, R& B, country, and western pop. He idolized Elvis Presley and later referred to him in a number of his songs.[2. Other early musical influences included Link Wray,[2.
Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, The Ventures, Cliff Richard and the Shadows,[2. Chuck Berry, Hank Marvin, Little Richard, Fats Domino, The Chantels, The Monotones, Ronnie Self, the Fleetwoods, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Gogi Grant. Young first began to play music himself on a plastic ukulele, before, as he would later relate, going on to "a better ukulele to a banjo ukulele to a baritone ukulele – everything but a guitar".
Young and his mother settled into the working- class area of Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, where the shy, dry- humoured youth enrolled at Earl Grey Junior High School. It was there that he formed his first band, the Jades, and met Ken Koblun. While attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, he played in several instrumental rock bands, eventually dropping out of school in favour of a musical career. Young's first stable band was the Squires, with Ken Koblun, Jeff Wuckert and Bill Edmondson on drums, who had a local hit called "The Sultan".
The band played in Fort William (now part of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario), where they recorded a series of demos produced by a local producer, Ray Dee, who Young called "the original Briggs". While playing at The Flamingo, Young met Stephen Stills, whose band the Company were playing the same venue, and they became friends.[3. The Squires played in several dance halls and clubs in Winnipeg and Ontario.[3. After leaving the Squires, Young worked folk clubs in Winnipeg, where he first met Joni Mitchell. Mitchell recalls Young as having been highly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time.[3.
Here he wrote some of his earliest and most enduring folk songs such as "Sugar Mountain", about lost youth. Mitchell wrote "The Circle Game" in response.[3.
The Winnipeg band The Guess Who (with Randy Bachman as lead guitarist) had a Canadian Top 4. Young's "Flying on the Ground is Wrong", which was Young's first major success as a songwriter.[3. In 1. 96. 5 Young toured Canada as a solo artist.
In 1. 96. 6, while in Toronto, he joined the Rick James- fronted Mynah Birds. The band managed to secure a record deal with the Motown label, but as their first album was being recorded, James was arrested for being AWOL from the Navy Reserve. After the Mynah Birds disbanded, Young and the bass player Bruce Palmer relocated to Los Angeles. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Movie Watch Online on this page.
Young admitted in a 2. United States illegally until he received a "green card" (permanent residency permit) in 1. Buffalo Springfield (1. Once they reached Los Angeles, Young and Palmer met up with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Dewey Martin to form Buffalo Springfield.
A mixture of folk, country, psychedelia, and rock, lent a hard edge by the twin lead guitars of Stills and Young, made Buffalo Springfield a critical success, and their first record Buffalo Springfield (1. Stills' topical song "For What It's Worth" became a hit, aided by Young's melodic harmonics played on electric guitar. According to Rolling Stone, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other sources, Buffalo Springfield helped create the genres of folk rock and country rock.[4. Distrust of their management, as well as the arrest and deportation of Palmer, exacerbated the already strained relations among the group members and led to Buffalo Springfield's demise. A second album, Buffalo Springfield Again, was released in late 1.
Young's three contributions were solo tracks recorded apart from the rest of the group. From that album, "Mr. Soul" was the only Young song of the three that all five members of the group performed together.
Broken Arrow"" features snippets of sound from other sources, including opening the song with a soundbite of Dewey Martin singing "Mr. Soul" and closing it with the thumping of a heartbeat. Expecting to Fly" featured a string arrangement that Young's co- producer for the track, Jack Nitzsche, dubbed "symphonic pop".[citation needed]In May 1. Last Time Around, was released, primarily from recordings made earlier that year.
Young contributed the songs "On the Way Home" and "I Am a Child", singing lead on the latter.
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