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Neil Young: The Father, the Fighter, and the Bridge He Built
Neil Young has spent sixty years cultivating the image of the restless loner — the guy in the black hat who follows no one, trusts his gut, and walks away from anything that smells like compromise. But behind that legend is a man whose life has been defined less by rebellion than by devotion: to…
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How Neil Young Created “After the Gold Rush”: The Story Behind the Masterpiece
In the spring of 1970, Neil Young was living in a house in Topanga Canyon with a piano, a guitar, and a head full of strange visions. Within weeks, he would write nearly all of the songs for one of the most beloved albums in rock history — an album inspired, improbably, by a movie…
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The Untold Story of Neil Young: The Restless Spirit Who Ran From Success and Found Immortality
Most rock stars spend their careers chasing a hit. Neil Young spent his running away from one. He found massive success in 1972 with the best-selling album of the year and a number-one single — and his response was to deliberately head in the opposite direction, making some of the darkest, strangest, most uncommercial records…