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Neil Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian musician and filmmaker. Coming to prominence with pop band Buffalo Springfield, and reaching his commercial peak during the singer songwriter boom of the early 1970s, his career is marked by experimentation and frequent stylistic changes that have often left critics, audiences, and (in one notable case) his record label, baffled. His back catalogue includes folk and country, hard rock, rockabilly, garage rock (which saw him tagged "The Godfather of Grunge") and electronica. He retains a core audience of devoted followers.
Young is recognizable for his distinct high-pitched, nasal voice. In addition to electric and acoustic guitars, he has occasionally performed on piano and organ, and frequently complements singing with harmonica playing.
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EuropeBruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Blur rumoured to play at Glastonbury
He's won an Oscar, two Emmies and 18 Grammies, sold 120m albums and been named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2008. But there is one distinction Bruce Springsteen has failed to achieve: wading gingerly in wellies on a pyramid-shaped stage in Somerset to play in front of 100,000 muddy but happy music fans.But that seems set to change with the news that the Boss is coming to Glastonbury. According to leaks circulating on the internet, the New Jersey rocker has been booked as one of the festival's headliners for 2009. Other names strongly rumoured to be appearing include Neil Young and a reformed Blur who, earlier this month, announced they were getting back together six years after they released their last album.Two July Hyde Park gigs announced by the band sold out in two minutes, leading them to organise two further dates the same week, but an appearance at Glastonbury, held the last weekend in June, would be the band's first major performance since 2000.Springsteen might be considered an ideal Glastonbury guest. Both are of similar vintage - Springsteen's career began in the late 1960s and early 70s, while the first festival was held at Worthy Farm in 1970 - and they share left-of-centre politics.Springsteen was a vocal supporter of Barack Obama during the US election and has campaigned for Amnesty International and Vietnam veterans' charities.Booking Young, too, would be a considerable coup for the festival, which has never secured the Canadian singer. He was booked to perform in 1997 but had to pull out at the last minute. Early rumours about Glastonbury's lineup are as traditional as its summer showers, and yesterday the festival, no less traditionally, was refusing to confirm or deny any names and insisting that no act had yet been 100% confirmed.Inevitably, the rumoured names will provoke discussion of the festival's youthful credentials, since neither the 59-year-old Springsteen nor Young, who is 63, could exactly be considered cutting edge. Most of the members of Blur, too, are now in their 40s.The festival attracted criticism after the 2007 event that it was becoming too middle-aged, with the NME arguing that the event risked becoming "about as musically relevant as the Diana concert".Even Michael Eavis , the Somerset dairy farmer who has hosted the event since 1970, acknowledged that something "had to be done" about the disproportionately middle-aged audiences. "Those late teens are the kids who make it work."His response this year was to book Jay-Z, the biggest rap star in the world, a choice that raised the bushy eyebrow of Noel Gallagher, along with those of other rock purists, but which was emphatically vindicated with the event's almost universally positive reception by critics.With the festival struggling to sell all its tickets last year, some see the choice of Springsteen and Young in particular as failsafe decisions for a sellout 2009 event. "Jay-Z's role in Glastonbury was to reaffirm how culturally relevant the event is, and that was absolutely mission accomplished," Paul Stokes, NME's news editor, yesterday."Everyone was buzzing about Glastonbury, saying it was the best one for years. They have put tickets on sale and have sold quite a few already. So [Eavis] is clearly thinking 'I have legroom to do what I want.' But at the same time, if you can get a name like Bruce Springsteen to play your event you are going to sell tickets."John Shearlaw, the festival's spokesman, insisted that whatever the names at the top of the bill, "Glastonbury has always been about over 1,000 performances over a week, not three headliners for an hour each on mainstage."It's the biggest festival of its type on the planet, so of course there will be all kinds of music."GlastonburyBruce SpringsteenBlurNeil YoungFestivalsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:06:12 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleSocial SciencesWho Pimped the Electric Car?
Rock legend Neil Young, that's who. He's got a team of people working to turn his 1959 Lincoln Continental into the heaviest electric car on the road. Young writes in the Huffington Post about the 'Lincvolt', another electric behemoth.
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Published: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT - Source: Planetizen.Com - Read the articleArtsGary Flockhart: The devil doesn't have all the best tunes after all
DARK times, they say, bring out the poets. And looking back, the Bush admin-istration certainly begat a bumper crop of protest albums from the likes of Neil Young, REM and Bri
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:52:56 GMT - Source: News.Scotsman.Com - Read the article
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