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Neil Percival Young was born on 11/12/45 in Toronto, Ontario. Neil is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Young is known for his evocative and personal lyrics, his distinguishing guitar sounds and harmonica playing. He played with Buffalo Springfield and CNSY beforeing going solo. See Neil Young live in Toronto. Search for tickets now.
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On March 31, 2005, Young was admitted to a hospital in New York for treatment for a brain aneurysm. He was treated successfully by a minimally invasive neuroradiological procedure. Prior to undergoing the procedure, he wrote the first eight songs of a new album, Prairie Wind, in Nashville, with session musicians that included regular Young sideman Ben Keith on lap and pedal steel guitars. The last two songs on the album were written after his aneurysm procedure. Many of the songs, such as "Fallin' Off the Face of the Earth," seem to be inspired by Young's brush with mortality, the recent death of his father (who suffered senile dementia), as well as a connection with his Manitoba roots. Two days after the procedure, Young was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance on the Juno Awards telecast in Winnipeg when the area where the surgeons did his procedure (via the femoral artery) suddenly began to bleed.
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Neil Young is a musical genius. He can play many instruments, write fabulous songs, Rock / Country / Acoustic........and is a superb performer. Saw him last year in Birmingham England....FANTASTIC. Would love to C.S.N & Y perform here in England.
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Signing with Warner Brothers (which distributed Geffen at the time) and returning to Reprise Records, Young produced This Note's For You (1988) with a new band, The Bluenotes, whose name rights were owned by musician Harold Melvin. Neil named his band after a cafe called the Blue Note on Main Street in Winnipeg Manitoba, where he had played. The addition of a brass section provided a new jazzier sound and the title track became his first hit single of the decade. Accompanied by a witty video which parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising and Michael Jackson in particular, the song was initially banned by MTV (although the Canadian music channel, MuchMusic ran it immediately) before being put into heavy rotation and finally given the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year for 1989. After Melvin sued over the use of the Bluenotes name, Young renamed his back-up group "Ten Men Workin'" for the balance of the concert tour.
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Filmmaker Jonathan Demme's intimate portrait of Neil Young proves that the singer-songwriter is still going strong after undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm in 2005. The film follows Young on a return trip to Nashville, Tenn., to premiere Prairie Wind live in concert. Guest stars Emmylou Harris and band leader and steel guitarist Ben Keith appear.
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Neil Young tickets area available for this singer/songwriter guitarist from Canada who made it big in the '60s. Young's style is a little country, folk and hard rock. Young's music is ... characterized by his personal lyrics and use of the harmonica and distinct guitar work. Hurry and get your concert tickets to see Niel Young live.
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