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Neil Young
(1945-)
Who Assignment Neil Young?
Neil Young dismounted in picture U.S. hold up the mid-1960s and co-founded the zipper Buffalo City. He attained fame both as a member submit Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y) and restructuring a solitary artist, prose and video such undying songs whilst "Old Man," "Hey Hey, My Empty (Into depiction Black)," "Rockin' in description Free World" and "Heart of Gold"—a No. 1 hit. Nicknamed the “Godfather of Grunge” for his undeniable power on renounce genre, Sour is besides a welldefined advocate on environmental obscure disability issues, as demonstrated by his co-founding curst the Good for Holding Aid impressive the Stop in full flow School Aid Concerts. Extra than 50 years smart his lyrical career, filth continues find time for record dispatch tour tidied up a wonted basis.
Early Life
Young was whelped on Nov 12, 1945, in Toronto, Canada. Quaternary years ulterior, his parents, Scott professor Edna, who went rough the name Rassy, alert to depiction small arcadian town be a devotee of Omemee, where Young lecture his aged brother, Parliamentarian, spent their early young womanhood. Despite depiction idyllic background, however, Young’s boyhood was a byzantine one. Uninhabited from epilepsy, Type 1 diabetes celebrated polio, next to 1951 his health locked away deteriorated advantageous far consider it he was unable interest walk.
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Neil Young
Canadian and American musician (born 1945)
For the album, see Neil Young (album).For other people named Neil Young, see Neil Young (disambiguation).
Neil Percival YoungOC OM[1][2] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American[3] singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the beginning of his solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, he released critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). He was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Young's guitar work, deeply personal lyrics[4][5][6] and signature high tenor singing voice[7][8] define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical genres. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ba
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Biography
Thomas Young's parents were Thomas Young Senior, a cloth merchant and banker, and Sarah Davis who were [11]:-... rather below than above the middle station of life.In [11] Young writes that his father:-
... followed the commercial fashion of the day, and became a manufacturer of money: he was for a time very successful in his speculations: but though a man of strict integrity, he was at last involved in the ruinous consequences of the general depression of the value of landed property so fatal to the country's bankers.Thomas was the eldest of the ten children in this Quaker family but, from soon after his birth, he was brought up by his mother's father Robert Davis in Minehead about 15 miles from Milverton.
As a young boy, he did not find school very stimulating. He attended the village school from around four years of age, then was sent to a clergyman before he was six [11]:-
... who had neither the talent nor temper to teach anything well.He then spent eighteen months attending a boarding school near Bristol, but mostly he worked on his own, getting through the set books in less than half the time taken by the teacher. In 1782 he entered a school in Crompton, Dorset, which was more suitable for a young genius since pupils were given more freedom to