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Pop / Rock
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classic rock, rock, folk, singer-songwriter, Canadian, Alt-country, country, seen live, indie, alternative, folk rock, hard rock, blues, indie rock, alternative rock, folk-rock, oldies, metal, Neil Young, acoustic
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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| Artist Compilations: |
<b>Neil Young</b> & Crazy Horse
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Biography
12 November 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although Young maintains he had a happy childhood he contracted polio when he was 6 and throughout his teenage years he suffered the disintegration of his parents' marriage (his father, Scott Young, was a hugely prolific sports writer and novelist). Having moved to Winnipeg as a child, Young began his enigmatic career as a member of several high-school bands, including the Jades and Classics. He later formed the Squires with Ken Koblun, whose indebtedness to the UK instrumental combo the Shadows was captured on Young's composition "Aurora'/'The Sultan". In 1965, he embarked on a folk-based musical direction, with appearances in Toronto's bohemian Yorkville enclave. A demonstration tape from this era contains early versions of "Sugar Mountain", a paean to lost childhood later placed on 10 different single releases, and "Don't Pity Me", revived a decade later as "Don't Cry No Tears". Young then joined the Mynah Birds, a pop...
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