Neil Young

NEIL YOUNG Scored His Only Number One Hit Single (So Far) In The US With ‘HEART OF GOLD’ 52 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

18 March 2024

52 years ago today, on 18 March 1972, rock icon NEIL YOUNG topped the US Singles Chart with one of his most famous songs, HEART OF GOLD from his magnum opus Harvest.

So far his only number-one hit in the US.

The song features backing vocals by two other stars, James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

Young recorded the song acoustically as he had a painful back injury, that hindered
him to stand up for long periods of time. He wasn’t able to play his electric guitar.

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Almost 365 million streams on Spotify
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NEIL YOUNG Returns To SPOTIFY

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13 March 2024

Back in early 2022, NEIL YOUNG pulled back his full music catalogue from Spotify because the streaming platform #1 had Joe Rogan’s podcast on, which Young accused
of spreading misinformation about anti-Covid 19 vaccines.

Some of his contemporaries including Joni Mitchell,
Nils Lofgren, and Crosby, Stills, & Nash followed him.

But Spotify, recently negotiated a deal with Rogan that made his broadcasts available on other platforms too. For this reason, Young announced on his website that he decided to return return Spotify, despite even his long expressed frustration with their audio quality.

STATEMENT

Spotify, the #1 streamer of low res music in the world — Spotify where you get less quality than we made, will now be home of my music again. My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY.
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I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it. Qobuz and Tidal, where my music is presented, are all High res as well.
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I hope all you millions of Spotify users enjoy my songs! They
will now all be there for you except for the full sound we created.
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Hopefully Spotify will turn to Hi Res as the answer and serve all the music to everyone. Spotify, you can do it! Really be #1 in all ways. You have the music and the listeners!!!! Start with a limited Hi res tier and build from there!
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Thanks for your support folks!

Neil

Keep on rockin’ in the Spotify world.

At this point of writing Young‘s trucks loaded
with all his music haven’t arrived yet at Spotify.

New UNCUT Magazine Issue With NEIL YOUNG As The Cover Star

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8 January 2024

Despairing and disconsolate, full of personal trauma and wider disillusion with the hippie dream – but all set to beautiful music – NEIL YOUNG ’s 1974 album ON THE BEACH turns 50 this year. To mark this anniversary, key players and eyewitnesses take Uncut inside the album’s loose, out there sessions. Plus a host of fans, acolytes and heads – including Kurt Vile, Margo Price, Alan Sparhawk and more – on their favourite tracks.

Also articles on Shane MacGowan, The Quarrymen, Liam Gallagher/John Squire and more.

Purchase a copy and let it be sent to your door. Info HERE.

NEIL YOUNG Shared New Track ‘STAND FOR PEACE’ – His Electrical Version Of The American Anthem

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

25 November 2023

For the occasion of this year’s Thanksgiving, 2 days ago, NEIL YOUNG shared his electrical version of the American anthem Star Spangled Banner and named it STAND FOR PEACE.

Just Young, his guitar and lots of feedback.

The accompanying video was made by his wife, actress Daryl Hannah.
The clip ends with the messages ‘Be Brave‘ and ‘Stand With Peace‘, obviously
referring to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

STAND FOR PEACE

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(Image on top: Cover of Young‘s ‘Le Noise‘ album)

NEIL YOUNG Quits X – Twitter

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20 November 2023

NEIL YOUNG posted this message on his website: “We are stopping all use of X that
we can control. For reasons that should be obvious to the richest man on Earth, we are taking this action against his company.” An image of Musk with the text “Teslas should fly flags of love not hate” was inserted in the post, along with this statement by Young.

“For our many Palestinian friends and our many Jewish friends, we do need to start over
in the present and release our terrible connections to the past. As bad as they are, they need to be forgotten so we can be free to move on in life together, all humanity, focused on saving our planet for future generations of all people.”

Last weekend big corporate advertisers such as Disney, Apple, Paramount and LionsgateFlee stopped their marketing campaigns on X (formerly twitter) following owner Elon Musk’s antisemitic abuse on his social media platform.