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birth of Neil Young
~born on November 12, 1945 (age 71)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
~Birth name Neil Percival Young
~years active 1960–present -
Buffalo Springfield.
he is born in Canada in 1945 Neil Young arrived in the U.S. in the middle of 1960s and and then the same year he joins the band Buffalo Springfield. -
Going solo, Crazy Horse (1968–69)
After the break-up of Buffalo Springfield Neil Young signed a solo deal with Reprise Records home of his colleague and friend Joni Mitchell, with who he shared a manage, Elliot Roberts who manages Neil Young to this day. -
songs he played at woodstock
he played songs Wonderin' (Neil Young & The Shocking Pinks cover), Sea of Madness (Neil Young song). Performed on Day 3 Started at 3.00 am, Monday, 18th 1969 Played for 60 min. -
After the Gold Rush, acoustic tour and Harvest (1970–72)[edit]
Later in the year Neil Young released his third solo album After the Gold Rush (August 31, 1970) which featured among others a young Nils Lofgren Stephen Stills and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves. Young also recorded some tracks with Crazy Horse. The eventual recording was less amplified than Everybody Knows This is Nowhere with a wider range of sounds. Neil Young's newfound fame with CSNY made the album his commercial breakthrough as a solo artist -
The "Ditch" Trilogy and personal struggles (1972–74)
Although a new tour had been planned to follow up on the success of Harvest (1972) it became apparent during rehearsals that Danny Whitten could not function due to drug abuse. On November 18 1972 shortly after he was fired from the tour preparations Whitten was found dead. Young described the incident to Rolling Stone's Cameron Crowe in 1975
"We were rehearsing with him and he just couldn't cut it. He couldn't remember anything. He was too out of it Too far gone." -
Experimental years (1980–88)
At the start of the decade distracted by domestic medical concerns relating to his second disabled son Ben. Young Neil Young had little time to spend on writing and recording.
After providing the incidental music to a 1980 biographical film of Hunter S. Thompson entitled Where the Buffalo Roam Young released Hawks & Doves (November 3, 1980) a short record pieced together from sessions going back to 1974. -
where dose he live now
lives on his ranch near La Honda California also he has lived in northern California since the 1970s.