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Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar; Tim Drummond – bass; Kenny Buttrey – drums; Linda Ronstadt – vocal; James Taylor – vocal The 1982 album Trans, which incorporated vocoders, synthesizers, and electronic beats, was Young's first for the new label Geffen Records (distributed at the time by Warner Bros. Records, whose parent Warner Music Group owns most of Young's solo and band catalog) and represented a distinct stylistic departure. Young later revealed that an inspiration for the album was the theme of technology and communication with Ben, who could not speak. [83] An extensive tour preceded the release of the album, and was documented by the video Neil Young in Berlin, which saw release in 1986. MTV played the video for "Sample and Hold" in light rotation. [ citation needed] Young playing in Barcelona, Spain, 1984 Living With War Review". Rolling Stone. May 1, 2006. Archived from the original on March 14, 2008 . Retrieved March 31, 2009. Stevenson, Campbell (April 29, 2006). "Neil Young: The conscience of America". The Guardian . Retrieved February 8, 2022.

Greene, Andy (February 19, 2020). "Neil Young Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump: 'You Are a Disgrace to My Country' ". Rolling Stone. United States . Retrieved May 7, 2020. The Needle and the Damage Done" was inspired directly by an overdose by bandmate Danny Whitten, who would later succumb to his addictions. [19] The song was also inspired by several artists Young had seen fall to heroin, as he explained to a January 1971 audience: "I got to see to see a lot of great musicians before they happened. Before they became famous. When they were just gigging. Five and six sets a night. Things like that. I got to see a lot of great musicians who nobody got to see for one reason or another. But strangely enough the real good ones that you never got to see was because of heroin. And that started happening over and over. And then it happened to some that everybody knew about." [20] ICMN Staff (January 12, 2014). "Neil Young Plays 'Honor the Treaties' Anti-Tar Sands Benefit Tonight". Indiancountrymedianetwork.com. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017 . Retrieved July 11, 2017.Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, p. 308. Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed Young as eighty-third in its ranking of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (although in a more recent version of the list, he has been moved up to seventeenth place), describing him as a "restless experimenter... who transform[s] the most obvious music into something revelatory". [218] Young is a collector of second-hand guitars, but in recording and performing, he uses frequently just a few instruments, as is explained by his longtime guitar technician Larry Cragg in the film Neil Young: Heart of Gold. They include: After leaving the Squires, Young worked folk clubs in Winnipeg, where he first met Joni Mitchell. [39] Mitchell recalls Young as having been highly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time. [40] Young said Phil Ochs was "a big influence on me," telling a radio station in 1969 that Ochs was "on the same level with Dylan in my eyes." [41] Here he wrote some of his earliest and most enduring folk songs such as " Sugar Mountain", about lost youth. Mitchell wrote " The Circle Game" in response. [42] The Winnipeg band The Guess Who (with Randy Bachman as lead guitarist) had a Canadian Top 40 hit with Young's "Flying on the Ground is Wrong", which was Young's first major success as a songwriter. [43] Young is loath, however, to take credit as an influence on anyone. “It’s not me, it’s just the music,” he says wearily. “I play it, and they play it. Link Wray was doing it a long time ago. Then Hendrix, now we’ve got all the grungers and the distortion thing. It’s just going farther and farther, which it should. It’s being developed.”

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.295. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Michaels, Sean (September 28, 2012). "Neil Young to take on Apple's iTunes Music Store". The Guardian. London . Retrieved October 25, 2012. Young's last two albums for Geffen were more conventional in the genre, although they incorporated production techniques like synthesizers and echoing drums that were previously uncommon in Young's music. Young recorded 1986's Landing on Water without Crazy Horse but reunited with the band for the subsequent year-long tour and final Geffen album, Life, which emerged in 1987. Young's album sales dwindled steadily throughout the eighties; today Life remains his all-time-least successful studio album, with an estimated four hundred thousand sales worldwide. [88] STEPHEN STILLS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 2020-07-05.

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While in Nashville, Young met record producer Elliot Mazer. Mazer had recently opened Quadrafonic Sound Studios in Nashville in a converted house. Mazer remembers: "The control room was the old porch. The living room and the dining room became the two live rooms, and the kitchen became a drum area. We called it 'Quadraphonic' as a joke, although it did have four speakers in the control room." [22] Eager to record his new songs, Mazer helped Young assemble a band of local Nashville musicians. Young remembers: British album certifications – Neil Young – Harvest Moon". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved September 22, 2020. Bad Fog Of Loneliness [...] Recorded [...] at Quadraphonic, Nashville, TN, February 6, 1971 [...] Published by Silver Fiddle Music (ASCAP) Tamblyn, Amber (August 30, 2009). "Amber Tamblyn: Confessions of a Child Star". Parade . Retrieved April 3, 2012.