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In 1966, Neil Young joined L.A. rock band Buffalo Springfield; they split up three albums later due to inter-band fighting and their lack of commercial success. Young's new album is Praire Wind, considered a follow-up to his Harvest records.
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On August 15, 2007, Young played a new album for 100 people at Reprise Records entitled Chrome Dreams II. (Chrome Dreams was an album he scrapped in 1977, and the name of two different bootlegs.) The new album includes two long songs that time in at 18:13 ("Ordinary People") and 14:31 ("No Hidden Path"), respectively. The album consists of three songs written previously and seven new songs, all by Young. The album was released on October 23, 2007, timed to coincide with a seven-week tour that had kicked off in Boise, Idaho, ten days earlier. The album and tour is cited as one of the reasons for the delay of Archives Vol. 1, which is scheduled for release in 2008 only on blu-ray and HDDVD. On January 25, 2008 the premiere of Young's latest work CSNY Deja Vu was viewed at the Sundance Movie Festival.
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After two searing protest anthems, Young had the biggest hit of his career with the intimate, inward-looking "Heart Of Gold." The single hit number one in 1972 and propelled its album, Harvest, to the same spot. Like most overplayed classic-rock staples, "Heart Of Gold" can be hard to hear with fresh ears; nonetheless, it remains an eternally arresting chart-topper, an unguarded glimpse into a lonesome yet hopeful soul bursting with plainspoken melancholy. Young's fortunes wavered throughout the '70s as he released unsettling, disjointed albums like On The Beach and Tonight's The Night. At this point, his discography starts to become ingrown and convoluted. Records like 1977's scattered American Stars 'N Bars were pieced together from old recording sessions, and the album's crunchiest track, "Like A Hurricane," became a surprise FM hit.
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Neil Young's second solo album, released only four months after his first, was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort. Though a couple of songs, "Round Round (It Won't Be Long)" and "The Losing ...Read full review
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Not long after, Neil Young released his first solo album, the self-titled Neil Young. At the time of its release, the album did not garner much critical acclaim. Today it is considered to be one of his best works.
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Young’s extramusical activities during the ’80s were as unpredictable as the albums. In 1984, to the bewilderment of his fans, he spoke out in favor of conservative Ronald Reagan. He ... participated in the 1985 Live Aid benefit and helped organize the subsequent Farm Aid concerts. In 1986 Young and his wife started the Bridge School in San Francisco, a learning center for disabled children. In 1989 a group of alternative rockers, including Sonic Youth, the Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr, contributed to The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, whose proceeds went to the school. (Young also organized annual benefit concerts for the school, at which a wide range of artists performed each year.)
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