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| Neil Young was born in 1945 in Toronto, Canada. After
spending several years on the folk circuit in Canada Young moved to
California in 1966 to join Buffalo Springfield. He spent two years with that
group and then formed his own band, Crazy Horse. In 1969 they released an
album called Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. In the same
year, Young joined Crosby Stills and Nash and in 1970 wrote their hit,
Ohio, inspired by the National Guard killing of four students on the
Kent State University campus during a Vietnam war protest.
Later in 1970,
Young's album After the Gold Rush reached #8 on the album charts. His
album Harvest, released in 1972 was his greatest success, reaching
#1.
Neil Young is an uncompromising musician capable of tremendous power and
range in his songs. To get an idea of his range listen to The Needle and
the Damage Done (1972) and Rockin' in the Free World (1989). Even
today, Young has not lost any of his energy. In May of 2006 he released an
album (Living With War) which is his personal indictment of the Bush
administration and its war in Iraq. The songs on the album were written and
recorded in just a few days and though the quality is uneven, no one can
question the depth of Young's convictions.
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