The documentary of The Band’s last performance, directed by Martin Scorcese, was delayed in post-production when Scorcese was put up to the task of rotoscoping out a lump of cocaine visibly hanging out of Young’s nose. He joined the long guest list of the seminal concert film The Last Waltz alongside artists such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Dr. The video was also nominated for Best Concept Video as well, but ironically lost to another Michael Jackson parody, Weird Al Yankovic’s “Fat”. He was infamously dissed by Lynard Skynard in their song “Sweet Home Alabama” and had a song whose music video was banned from MTV after making fun of the whole Michael Jackson-Pepsi incident, but later won the VMAs Best Video of the Year. In addition to his critical success, he has had several top 5 Billboard charting known for his iconic hit singles including “Old Man”, “Heart of Gold” and “War of Man”.ĭespite all this, Young’s career has not been without controversy. Young is one of the few people to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as himself and once with his psychedelic rock band Buffalo Springfield which he co-founded in Canada in 1960 along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, before illegally immigrating to Los Angeles in 1966, to pursue his acclaimed solo career. In between, he’s done collaborative albums with Pearl Jam and Crazy Horse (later being dubbed “The Godfather of Grunge”), brought his profound lyricism to the Simon and Garfunkel-esque harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who, according to legend, he performed with at Woodstock, and even did autotune way before Kanye. Young has released an album almost every year since 1969 with his eponymous debut album and most recently The Visitor, released in 2017. He is easily recognizably for his distinct tenor voice, making him a near-polar opposite of his Canadian folk contemporary, the baritone Leonard Cohen, although they both share a dense and idiosyncratic sense of lyricism. Who are you? Where are you going to? What's your name? Why aren't you showing through? I look in your eyes and I don't know what's there You poisonĮdit bioNeil Young is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Don't know where things went wrong Might have been when you were young and strong Don't know where things went wrong Might have been when you were young
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