Here are four poignant Neil Young songs about growing older in honor of the Canadian folk-rock legend's 79th birthday.

Neil Young’s greatest hits range from “Old Man” to “Heart of Gold”! The Canadian musician got his start in the 1960s and is ...

Neil Young has always been mightily self-critical. He once explained that a fan favourite intentionally features one of his ...

After Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd released two tracks addressing each others' shortcomings, Warren Zevon weighed in with ...

Neil Young and Crazy Horse kicked off the show with the 1975 song "Cortez the Killer." The first lyrics from Young brought ...

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and ...

“Down By The River” defined the guitar sound Young ... lyrics reflected his feverish state, and the mysterious effect was only enhanced by the hand-scribbled non-explanation that accompanied ...

Neil Young was ... In that same interview, Young went on to say that there was more to rock music than “perfection and overdubs”, and lamented the obsession at the time with wealth and ...

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a 25-year-old Neil Young offered his audience a few laconic thoughts while tuning his guitar. Introducing the next song in his set — the then-unknown but now instantly recognizable “Needle and ...

So why didn’t north-of-the-border acts such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell ... audiences when they heard their own music played back to them. Young, the son of a Toronto sportswriter, was ...