Biography
Now Neil Young is known as a solo performer, but the early period of his career is associated with the Country group Buffalo Springfield. For 50 years on stage, Canadian laid the foundation of grunge and inspired Kurt Kobein for creativity, created atmospheric soundtracks for Western "Dead", captured the sharp moments of the US history and the whole world in music.Neil Percival Yang was born on November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Canada. Father - Journalist and Sports Commentator Scott Alexander Young, Mother - a follower of the organization "Daughters of the American Revolution" Edna Bloou Ragland Young. Neil is the second child in the family after Brother Robert (1942). From mother, the boys inherited American and French roots.
The Yang family often moved: Soon after the emergence of Nile, settled in Ommi, the province of Ontario, in 1951, when the boy was overdone with polio, not a long time in New Smirna Beach, Florida. Here Neil first went to school. A year later, the family moved to Winnipeg, from there - again in Toronto, then in the English city Pickering.
Frequent finding on the road positively affected the musical education of the Nile: on the radio in the mid-1950s, Rock and Roll, Rocabilly, R'n'B, Country and Western Pop played. Even a boy like Elvis Presley, mention of the legend of rock and roll later appeared in a number of Yang songs. Among the idols were also the Ventures, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Fleetwoods, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash. In Yang youth, Yang tried to imitate their style, playing at the ukulele.
In 1960, parents divorced - it turned out that Scott Alexander had extramarital children. Bob left the Father in Toronto, and Neil remained with his mother in Winnipeg. Here Yang Jr. enrolled in Earl Gray School, where he met Ken Koblun, now the famous Canadian musician. The guys founded the group The Jades. At the same time, the guy played several instrumental rock bands and eventually threw school for music.
Music
The Squires (NEIL YOUNG & THE SQUIRES) became the first stable team of Canadian, created in 1963. Quartet - Koblun, Jeff Walkers, Bill Edmondson and Young - performed at graduation balas and student parties. The group even recorded the Single "The Sultan" and released 300 copies with a circulation. At the same time, Neil became acquainted with Stephen Stills - a future colleague on Buffalo Springfield.
Shattered with The Squires, Neil Young performed solo in Winnipeg clubs and wrote songs. It was then that "Sugar Mountain" appeared about the lost youth. For the Canadian group The Guess Who Musician composed "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong". The composition entered the TOP-40 Canada, and it was the first major success of Yang as the author of hits.
In 1966, Nile, along with another Bruce Palmer moved to Los Angeles and once in traffic with styls and Richie fusion. Dewey Martin added to the fours. So the Buffalo Springfield team appeared - the combination of folk, country, psychedelic and rock. The same album appeared in the same year, took the 80th place in the Billboard Top Pop Albums, and the single "For What It's Worth" became a hit, rising to the 7th line in the Billboard Hot 100.
The deportation of Palmer, the Tiracy by management aggravated the already tense relationship between musicians, and, having existed for 2 years, the group broke up. The Second Studio Album "Buffalo Springfield Again", released at the end of 1967, half recorded with one tongue.
The existence of Buffalo Springfield completed the album "Last Time Around" (1968), which was released by contractual obligations. The collection consisted of old studio records. The last line on this page of Yang's biography was 1997, when the name of the group was decorated with rock and roll glory. Neil at the ceremony did not appear.
After the collapse of Buffalo Springfield, Young began to work sololy with Elliot Robertson, he is now a singer manager. Men immediately began to record the debut independent album "Neil Young" (1969), who did not receive positive reviews and did not get into the charts. Later in an interview with Nile explained the failure of the collection by his emotional overwork.
To refresh the sound of the next album, Young invited three musicians from The Rockets: Danny Whitten (guitarist), Billy Tabota (bass guitarist) and Ralph Molina (drummer). Accompaniators united called Crazy Horse. Together with the "horses", Neil created "Everybody" (1969), as well as dozens of subsequent collections.
The album recorded in 2 weeks includes 7 songs, 3 of which Young has composed at 39 ° C: "CINNAMON GIRL", COWGIRL IN THE SAND and DOWN by The River. Fever has had a positive effect: the collection lasted 98 weeks at the 34th place of the US Billboard 200 and became platinum, entered the "1001 album to hear the lists that need to be heard before dying" and "500 best albums of all time."
Shortly after the release of "EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE" Yang resumed cooperation with Stephen Stills, joining Crosby, Stills & Nash. Canadza offered the position of the session musician, but he agreed only when he was made a full-fledged member of the team. As a result, in 1969, the Quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was awarded the Grammy Award as the "Best New Contractor".
The group entered the international scene by playing several concerts in Chicago, then performed at the Woodstock festival. Here Yang missed most acoustic compositions and made a scandal with operators, because they in attempts to remove the close-up prevented under their feet. During the recording of the album "Déjà Vu" (1970), Stills and Young fought for leadership in the group. Once in an interview with Stephen said about a colleague:
"He had to do with the rest, he wanted to play folk in rock gang."Despite the tense relationship, the stay of Yang in CSN & Y coincided with the peak of their creativity. This largely contributed to his subsequent success as a solo artist. In 1970, the third solo album Nile Yang "After The Gold Rush" came out, in support of which the musician made a tour in North America. The playlist included the songs of Buffalo Springfield and CSN & Y, played by a guitar or piano, as well as some compositions that still do not have the studio version, for example, "Journey Through The Past".
Two years later, Yang released an album that he himself was almost loved, "Harvest. The collection includes 10 songs, including "Heart Of Gold" - the only canadian track in the music quarry, which reached the 1st place in the charts. Album itself headed Billboard Hot 100 two weeks.
The unexpected success of "Harvest" made the musician think about the completion of the career, and to overcome this crisis, Young began experimenting. The result was the "live" album "Time Fades Away" (1973). He, "On the Beach" (1974) and Tonight's The Night (1975) consisted of the trilogy of commercially failed assemblers of the Nile, the so-called "Ditch Trilogy".
In 1976, Young appeared on the same stage with Bob Dilan, Joni Mitchell and other famous rock stars in the framework of The Last Waltz. The premiere of Martin Scorsese film about this concert had to be postponed to cut the song "Helpless": during her execution, the Canadian had a nose in cocaine.
In the first half of the 1980s, Yang dedicated himself to the family, in particular the son of Ben, who had cerebral paralysis. In 1982, the musician made his debut in a different role - as a director of the comedy "Human Highway". At the shooting of the film was spent $ 3 million. Critics reacted to the picture with humor and called "a historia about an amazing wizard from Oz, who thrown in acid." In 1983, the album "EVERYBODY'S Rockin '" was released, and it would mean, because on the composition from this collection - "Wonderin" and "Cry, Cry, Cry" - the first clips were removed.
Single "Rockin 'in The Free World" from the album "Freedom" (1989) returned Yang to the number of popular musicians. The song is devoted to the problems of homelessness, terrorism, environmental degradation, and also contains the implicit criticism of George Bush's-senior regime. The disc itself influenced the development of grunge: Kurt Cobaine from Nirvana and Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam called "Freedom" with their musical Bible.
In 1995, the film "Dead" with Johnny Depp came to the screens. The picture of the economist William Blake and the Indian named Nobody was removed in the best traditions of Road Mugvi. According to the director of Jim Jarmushe, the script was written under the songs of Nila Yang. His guitar solo is an integral part of the "dead man."
The 2000s were marked by epitaphi songs, with the exception of the album "Silver and Gold" (2000), written in the best traditions of Country. "Let's Roll" (2001) is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001 and the actions of the Flight 93 aircraft passengers. Compositions from the album "GreenDale" (2003) somehow rotate around the murder of a policeman in the California town.
In March 2005, Young himself was on the verge of death - he was diagnosed with the aneurysm of the brain. Once he lost consciousness on the street and, falling, hit his head. This episode is dedicated to the song "WHEN GOD MADE ME".
Album "Living War" (2006) talks about war in Iraq.
Personal life
Nile Yang's personal life is rich in events, but it can not be called happy. For the first time, the musician married in December 1968 at Susan Aceviedo, the owner of the restaurant business. Their marriage lasted 2 years, then the woman was submitted to a divorce.
From the late 1970s to 1975, Yang was in relations with actress Carrie Snodgress. The civilian wife has become a muse for Canadian: "A man Needs a Maid" was written under the impression of the film "Diary of the Mad Housewife" (1970) from Carrie in the lead role. On September 8, 1972, a couple had a son of Zeke.
In 1974, Young Morton Morton met the future spouse. She worked as a waitress in a diner near Rancho, which is headed about the story in the song "Unknown Legend". The couple played a wedding after 4 years, in August 1978. They have a son Ben and daughter Amber.
Yang's children suffer from diseases - Ben and Zika diagnosed cerebral paralysis, at the Ember Epilepsy.
July 29, 2014, after 36 years of marriage, Yang filed for a divorce from Panga Morton, after which the musician and actress Daryl Khanna regularly appeared in the press regularly appeared. In August 2018, the couple played a wedding, and in October, Yang officially confirmed this news in the video.
Neil Young now
Despite the old age and health problems, Neil Young does not plan to complete his career.
In March 2018, he "voiced" Daryl Hannah's film "Paradox", and in October presented a "live" version of the song "Campaigner", which will enter the album "Songs for Judy" along with the recording of the speeches during the 1976 tour.
Discography
- 1968 - "NEIL YOUNG"
- 1969 - "EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE"
- 1970 - "After The Gold Rush"
- 1972 - "Harvest"
- 1983 - "EVERYBODY'S Rockin '"
- 1989 - "Freedom"
- 1992 - "Harvest Moon"
- 2000 - "Silver & Gold"
- 2003 - "GREENDALE"
- 2012 - "Americana"
- 2016 - "Peace Trail"