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994	Single of the Year	"Harvest Moon"	Nominated
	Album of the Year	Harvest Moon	Won
1993	Songwriter of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1991	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1990	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1989	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1986	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1982	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1981	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1980	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1979	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1975	Composer of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated

MTV Video Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1984	"Wonderin'"	Most Experimental Video	Nominated
1989	"This Note's for You"	Video of the Year	Won
		Viewer's Choice Award	Nominated

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2011	"Angry World"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
		Best Rock Song	Won
	Le Noise	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2014	Psychedelic Pill	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2015	A Letter Home	Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package	Nominated

Juno Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2011	Artist of the Year	Neil Young	Won
	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Le Noise	Won
2008	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Chrome Dreams II	Nominated
2007	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Living With War	Won
2006	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Prairie Wind	Nominated
	Jack Richardson Producer of the Year	"The Painter"	Won
	Songwriter of the Year	"The Painter", "When God Made Me", "Prairie Wind"	Nominated
2001	Best Male Artist	Neil Young	Won
	Best Roots & Traditional Album – Solo	Silver & Gold	Nominated
1997	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1996	Best Rock Album	Mirror Ball	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1995	Songwriter of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Won
	Entertainer of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated

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Grammy Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1990	Freedom	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
1991	"Rockin' in the Free World"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
1994	"Harvest Moon"	Record of the Year	Nominated
		Song of the Year	Nominated
	"My Back Pages"	Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
1995	"Philadelphia"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	Sleeps with Angels	Best Rock Album	Nominated
1996	"Peace and Love"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	"Downtown"	Best Rock Song	Nominated
	Mirror Ball	Best Rock Album	Nominated
		Best Recording Package	Nominated
1997	Broken Arrow	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2006	"The Painter"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	Prairie Wind	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2007	"Lookin' for a Leader"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
		Best Rock Song	Nominated
	Living with War	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2009	"No Hidden Path"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
2010	"Fork in the Road"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972	Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package	Won
	Neil Young	MusiCares Person of the Year	Won

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 Albums recorded in tribute to Young by various artists include:

• 1989 – The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, Caroline
• 1994 – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young, Sony Music Canada, 2xCD acoustic and electric
• 1999 – This Note's for You Too!: A Tribute to Neil Young, Inbetweens Records 2xCD
• 2000 – Getting' High on Neil Young: A Bluegrass Tribute, CMH Records (same as 1998 entry)
• 2001 – Everybody Knows This Is Norway: A Norwegian Tribute to Neil Young, Switch Off Records
• 2001 – Mirrorball Songs – A Tribute to Neil Young, SALD, Japan
• 2006 – Headed for the Ditch: a Michigan Tribute to Neil Young, Lower Peninsula Records 2xLP
• 2007 – Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young, 2xCD acoustic and electric, Universal Music Canada 2xCD
• 2007 – Like A Hurricane (16-track tribute album provided with the December 2007 issue of Uncut Magazine)
• 2008 – More Barn – A Tribute to Neil Young, Slothtrop Music
• 2008 – Cinnamon Girl – Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity, American Laundromat Records 2xCD
• 2012 – Music Is Love: A Singer-Songwriter Tribute to the Music of CSNY Route 66 2xCD

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 The Australian rock group Powderfinger named themselves after Young's song "Powderfinger" from Rust Never Sleeps (1979). The members of the Constantines have occasionally played Neil Young tribute shows under the name Horsey Craze.

Jason Bond, an East Carolina University biologist, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider in 2007 and named it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after Young, his favorite singer.

In 2001, Young was awarded the Spirit of Liberty award by the civil liberties group People for the American Way. Young was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year on January 29, 2010, two nights prior to the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. He was also nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "Fork in the Road" and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963–1972). Young won the latter Grammy Award. In 2010, he was ranked No. 26 in Gibson.com's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

Other honors include:

• Canadian Music Hall of Fame, 1982
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: first in 1995 for his solo work and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
• In 2006, Artist of the Year by the American Music Association.

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 In 2006, when Paste magazine compiled a "Greatest Living Songwriters" list, Young was ranked second behind Bob Dylan. (While Young and Dylan have occasionally played together in concert, they have never collaborated on a song together or played on each other's records). He ranked thirty-ninth on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock that same year. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained that while Young has "avoided sticking to one style for very long, the unifying factors throughout Young's peripatetic musical journey have been his unmistakable voice, his raw and expressive guitar playing, and his consummate songwriting skill."

According to Acclaimed Music, Young is the seventh-most celebrated artist in popular music history.

After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Déjà Vu, and "Ohio" have all been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Young's political outspokenness and social awareness influenced artists such as Blind Melon, Phish, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. Young is referred to as "the Godfather of Grunge" because of the influence he had on Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder and the entire grunge movement. Vedder inducted Young into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, citing him as a huge influence. Young is cited as being a significant influence on the experimental rock group Sonic Youth, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Yorke recounted of first hearing Young after sending a demo tape into a magazine when he was 16, who favorably compared his singing voice to Young's. Unaware of Young at that time, he bought After the Gold Rush (1970), and "immediately fell in love" with his work, calling it "extraordinary".

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Influence and awards

Young's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

As one of the original founders of Farm Aid (1985–), he remains an active member of the board of directors. For one weekend each October, in Mountain View, California, Young and his ex-wife hosted the Bridge School Concerts, which drew international talent and sell-out crowds for nearly two decades. He announced in June 2017, however, that he would no longer host the concerts.

Rolling Stone magazine in 2000, ranked Young thirty-fourth in its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. In 2000, Young was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

In 2003, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list included After the Gold Rush at number 71, Harvest at number 78, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) at number 148, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere at number 208, Tonight's the Night at number 331, and Rust Never Sleeps at number 350. And in 2004, on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, Rolling Stone included "Rockin' in the Free World" at number 214, "Heart of Gold" at number 297, "Cortez the Killer" at number 321, and "Ohio" (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) at number 385.

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• Everybody's Rockin' with the Shocking Pinks (1983)
• Old Ways (1985)
• Landing on Water (1986)
• Life with Crazy Horse (1987, live)
• This Note's for You with The Bluenotes (1988)
• Freedom (1989)
• Ragged Glory with Crazy Horse (1990)
• Harvest Moon (1992)
• Sleeps with Angels with Crazy Horse (1994)
• Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam (1995)
• Broken Arrow with Crazy Horse (1996)
• Silver & Gold (2000)
• Are You Passionate? with Booker T. & the M.G.'s (2002)
• Greendale with Crazy Horse (2003)
• Prairie Wind (2005)
• Living with War (2006)
• Living with War: "In the Beginning" (2006)
• Chrome Dreams II (2007)
• Fork in the Road (2009)
• Le Noise (2010)
• Americana with Crazy Horse (2012)
• Psychedelic Pill with Crazy Horse (2012)
• A Letter Home (2014)
• Storytone (2014)
• The Monsanto Years with Promise of the Real (2015)
• Peace Trail (2016)
• Earth (2016)
• Hitchhiker recorded 1976 (2017)
• The Visitor with Promise of the Real (2017)
• Colorado with Crazy Horse (2019)
• Homegrown recorded 1974–75 (2020)
• Barn with Crazy Horse (2021)

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 The Tweed Deluxe is almost always used in conjunction with a late-1950s Magnatone 280 (similar to the amplifier used by Lonnie Mack and Buddy Holly). The Magnatone and the Deluxe are paired together in an unusual manner: the external speaker jack from the Deluxe sends the amped signal through a volume potentiometer and directly into the input of the Magnatone. The Magnatone is notable for its true pitch-bending vibrato capabilities. It can be heard as an electric piano amplifier on "See the Sky About to Rain". A notable and unique accessory to Young's Deluxe is the Whizzer, a device created specifically for Young by Rick Davis, which physically changes the amplifier's settings to pre-set combinations. This device is connected to footswitches operable by Young onstage in the manner of an effects pedal. Tom Wheeler's book Soul of Tone highlights the device on page 182/183.

Discography

• Neil Young (1968)
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere with Crazy Horse (1969)
• After the Gold Rush (1970)
• Harvest (1972)
• Time Fades Away (1973, live)
• On the Beach (1974)
• Tonight's the Night (1975)
• Zuma with Crazy Horse (1975)
• Long May You Run with Stephen Stills (1976)
• American Stars 'n Bars (1977)
• Comes a Time (1978)
• Rust Never Sleeps with Crazy Horse (1979, live)
• Hawks & Doves (1980)
• Re·ac·tor with Crazy Horse (1981)
• Trans (1982)

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 They include: a late 1950s Gretsch White Falcon purchased by Young near the end of the Buffalo Springfield era. In 1969, he bought a stereo version of the same vintage guitar from Stephen Stills, and this instrument is featured prominently during Young's early 1970s period, and can be heard on tracks like "Ohio", "Southern Man", "Alabama", "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", and "L.A.". It was Young's primary electric guitar during the Harvest (1972) era, since Young's deteriorating back condition (eventually fixed with surgery) made playing the much heavier Les Paul (a favourite of his named Old Black) difficult.

Reed organ

Young owns a restored Estey reed organ, serial number 167272, dating from 1885, which he frequently plays in concert.

Crystallophone

Young owns a glass harmonica, which he played in the recording of "I Do" on his 2019 album Colorado.

Amplification

Young uses various vintage Fender Tweed Deluxe amplifiers. His preferred amplifier for electric guitar is the Fender Deluxe, specifically a Tweed-era model from 1959. He purchased his first vintage Deluxe in 1967 for US$50 (US$388 in 2020 dollars) from Sol Betnun Music on Larchmont in Hollywood and has since acquired nearly 450 different examples, all from the same era, but he maintains that it is the original model that sounds superior and is crucial to his trademark sound.

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 Young has long held that the digital audio formats in which most people download music are deeply flawed, and do not provide the rich, warm sound of analog recordings. He claims to be acutely aware of the difference, and compares it with taking a shower in tiny ice cubes versus ordinary water. Young and his company PonoMusic developed Pono, a music download service and dedicated music player focusing on "high-quality" uncompressed digital audio. It was designed to compete against highly compressed MP3 type formats. Pono promised to present songs "as they first sound during studio recording". The service and the sale of the player were launched in October 2014.

Instruments

Guitars

Young playing a Gretsch White Falcon in Cologne, June 19, 2009

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". 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.

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 Young confirmed his marriage to Hannah in a video released on October 31, 2018.

Young has been widely reported to be the godfather of actress Amber Tamblyn; in a 2009 interview with Parade, Tamblyn explained that "godfather" was "just a loose term" for Young, Dennis Hopper, and Dean Stockwell, three famous friends of her father, Russ Tamblyn, who were important influences on her life.

Charity work

Young is an environmentalist and outspoken advocate for the welfare of small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid. He worked on LincVolt, the conversion of his 1959 Lincoln Continental to hybrid electric technology as an environmentalist statement. In 1986, Young helped found The Bridge School, an educational organization for children with severe verbal and physical disabilities, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his former wife Pegi Young.

Young is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.

Business ventures

Young was part owner of Lionel, LLC, a company that makes toy trains and model railroad accessories. In 2008 Lionel emerged from bankruptcy and his shares of the company were wiped out. He was instrumental in the design of the Lionel Legacy control system for model trains, and remains on the board of directors of Lionel. He has been named as co-inventor on seven US patents related to model trains.

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 He moved out and gave Pegi Young the ranch after their divorce in 2014. Young's son Ben lives there.

Young announced in 2019 that his application for United States citizenship had been held up because of his use of marijuana, but the issue was resolved and he became a United States citizen.

Relationships and family

Young married his first wife, restaurant owner Susan Acevedo, in December 1968. They were together until October 1970, when she filed for divorce.

From late 1970 to 1975, Young was in a relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress. The song "A Man Needs a Maid" from Harvest is inspired by his seeing her in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife. They met soon afterward and she moved in with him on his ranch in northern California. They have a son, Zeke, who was born September 8, 1972. He has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

Young met future wife Pegi Young (née Morton) in 1974 when she was working as a waitress at a diner near his ranch, a story he tells in the 1992 song "Unknown Legend". They married in August 1978 and had two children together, Ben and Amber. Ben has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and Amber has been diagnosed with epilepsy. The couple were musical collaborators and co-founded the Bridge School in 1986. On July 29, 2014, Young filed for divorce after 36 years of marriage. Pegi died on January 1, 2019.

Young has been in a relationship with actress and director Daryl Hannah since 2014. Young and Hannah were reported to have wed on August 25, 2018, in Atascadero, California.

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 On July 14, 2009, Young's first four solo albums were reissued as remastered HDCD discs and digital downloads as discs 1–4 of the Original Release Series of the Archives.

As of 2019, Young has launched a subscription website and application where all of his music is available to stream in high resolution audio. The Neil Young Archives also include his newspaper, The Times-Contrarian, The Hearse Theater, and photographs and memorabilia from throughout his career.

Personal life

Homes and residency

Young's family was from Manitoba, where both his parents were born and married. Young himself was born in Toronto, Ontario, and lived there at various times in his early life (1945, 1957, 1959–1960, 1966 to 1967), as well as Omemee (1945 to 1952) and Pickering, Ontario (1956) before settling with his mother in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1958, 1960–1966), where his music career began and which he considers his "hometown". Young has been outside Canada since 1967. After becoming successful, he bought properties in California. He currently holds dual citizenship for Canada and the United States.

Young had a home in Malibu, California, which burned to the ground in the 2018 Woolsey Fire.

Young owns Broken Arrow Ranch, a property of about 1,000 acres^[ near La Honda, California, that he purchased in 1970 for US$350,000 (US$2,332,434 in 2020 dollars); the property was subsequently expanded to thousands of acres.

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 In December 2020, Rolling Stone magazine released a Special Edition marking Young's 75th birthday, called "The Ultimate Guide to His Music & Legend", plus his 100 greatest songs. In a December 2020 Letters To The Editor article on the NYA website, Neil Young revealed that he is currently working on a new solo album, possibly for a 2021 release. The only thing Young had mentioned about the album so far is, "I've been waiting a long time." In January 2021, it was reported that Young had sold the rights to his back catalog to a British investment company. Hipgnosis Songs Fund had bought a 50 percent stake in Young's catalog, amounting to 1,800 songs from his Buffalo Springfield days, through the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young era and on to his solo career with the Crazy Horse backing band. Financial details were not disclosed but the value was estimated to be at least $150 million.

In June 2021, Young confirmed that he was working on an album with Crazy Horse titled Barn, which was released on December 10, 2021; the first single, "Song of the Seasons", was released on October 15. The album's second single, "Welcome Back", was released on December 3, along with a music video. A stand-alone film also titled Barn will be released on Blu-ray and will be directed by Daryl Hannah. Young also confirmed that he completed his third book Canary, his first work of fiction.

Archives project

In an interview in 2008, Young discussed Toast, an album originally recorded with Crazy Horse in San Francisco in 2000 but never released.

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 Young, multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren, bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina recorded the new album with Young's co-producer, John Hanlon, in spring 2019. The 10 new songs are ranging from around 3 minutes to over 13 minutes. Colorado was released on October 25, 2019 on Reprise Records. On August 30, 2019, Young unveiled "Milky Way", the first song from Colorado, a love ballad he had performed several times at concerts – both solo acoustic and with Promise of the Real.

2020s

In February 2020, Young wrote an "open letter" to President Donald Trump: ‘You Are a Disgrace to My Country’. In April 2020, he announced that he was working on a new archival album titled Road of Plenty, which will consist of music made with Crazy Horse during a 1986 US tour and tracks recorded in 1989 while rehearsing for their Saturday Night Live appearance.

On May 7, 2020, it was announced that Young would release on June 19, 2020, his 1975 unreleased album Homegrown, which he described as "the missing link between Harvest, Comes A Time, Old Ways and Harvest Moon". The original release date of April 17 had to be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On August 4, 2020, Young filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Donald Trump's reelection campaign for the use of Young's music at campaign rallies.

On August 14, 2020, Young announced that he would "soon" release a new EP entitled The Times. Young shared the news via his video for his new song "Lookin' for a Leader", stating: "I invite the President to play this song at his next rally. A song about the feelings many of us have about America today, it's part of The Times, an EP coming soon from Reprise Records—my home since 1968."

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 On Record Store Day, April 21, 2018, Warner Records released a two-vinyl LP special edition of Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live, a double live album of a show that Young performed in September 1973 at the Roxy in West Hollywood, with the Santa Monica Flyers. The album is labeled as "Volume 05" in Young's Performance Series.

On October 19, 2018, Young released a live version of his song "Campaigner", an excerpt from a forthcoming archival live album titled Songs for Judy, which features solo performances recorded during a November 1976 tour with Crazy Horse. It will be the first release from his new label Shakey Pictures Records.

In November 2018, shortly after his home had been destroyed by the California wildfire, Young criticized President Donald Trump's stance on climate change.

In December 2018, Young criticized the promoters of a London show for selecting Barclays Bank as a sponsor. Young objected to the bank's association with fossil fuels. Young explained that he was trying to rectify the situation by finding a different sponsor.

Neil Young was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

On August 19, 2019, Neil Young and Crazy Horse announced the forthcoming release later in August 2019 of the new song "Rainbow of Colors", the first single from the album Colorado, Young's first new record with the band in seven years, since 2012's Psychedelic Pill.

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 In summer 2015, Young undertook a North America tour titled the Rebel Content Tour. The tour began on July 5, 2015, at the Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ended on July 24, 2015, at the Wayhome Festival in Oro-Medonte, Ontario. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real were special guests for the tour.

In October 2016, Young performed at Desert Trip in Indio, California, and announced his thirty-seventh studio album, Peace Trail, recorded with drummer Jim Keltner and bass guitarist Paul Bushnell, which was released that December.

On September 8, 2017, Young released Hitchhiker, a studio LP recorded on August 11, 1976, at Indigo Studios in Malibu. The album features ten songs that Young recorded accompanied by acoustic guitar or piano. While different versions of most of the songs have been previously released, the new album will include two never-before-released songs: "Hawaii" and "Give Me Strength", which Young has occasionally performed live.

On July 4, 2017, Young released the song "Children of Destiny" which would appear on his next album. On November 3, 2017, Young released "Already Great", a song from The Visitor, an album he recorded with Promise of the Real and released on December 1, 2017.

On December 1, 2017, Young performed live in Omemee, Ontario, Canada, a town he had lived in as a child.

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