9- Neil Young is an avid paddle boarder .
He said he loves paddle boarding because “it’s a beautiful thing…I can’t worry about the paparazzi. You can’t see them anyway. They are taking pictures from behind trees. You can’t think about that.”
The 69-year old rocker and the 54-year old actress went paddle-boarding with pals in the harbour at Santa Barbara, California, on Sunday.
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10- Bono once had the nerve to give Neil Young advice on how to write more commercially successful songs. After hearing Young’s album “Greendale” from 2003, Young claims Bono said “the songs needed hooks that went over and over again and more people could hear them.” But Neil Young ignored Bono’s advice.
11- Young has directed or co-directed some films
- “Journey Through the Past” (1973),
- “Rust Never Sleeps” (1979),
- “Human Highway” (1982),
- “Greendale” (2003)
- “CSNY/Déjà Vu” (2008) under the name Bernard Shakey.
12- in 1976 Neil Young took part in Martin Scorsese’s film “The Last Waltz” .
The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group the Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976,
Various other artists perform with the Band: Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Neil Diamond and Eric Clapton. Genres covered include blues, rock and roll, New Orleans R&B, Tin Pan Alley pop, folk and rock. Further genres are explored in segments filmed later on a sound stage with Emmylou Harris (country) and the Staple Singers (soul and gospel).
13- Neil Young’s middle name is Percival.
Just like King Arthur’s legendary Knights of the Round Table or Dr. Cox from “Scrubs.”
“The Round Table is King Arthur‘s famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights congregate”
14- In his late teen music years, Neil Young owned a hearse that he called “Mortimer.” He used it to drive his early band The Squires around from gig to gig.
Neil’s beloved Pontiac hearse, “Mort” (a.k.a. “Mortimer Hearseburg”), was the inspiration for this song. Neil drove “Mort” from Toronto to Los Angeles, where he met Stephen Stills and formed Buffalo Springfield.
15- Some critics ragged on Young in the ’90s for shifting his sound away from raw rock and roll to softer acoustic tunes. It turns out that after years of playing loud electric music, Young actually developed tinnitus, a hearing problem causing a ringing in the ear. That encouraged Young’s shift to a softer sound.
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