Neil Young is tagged as: classic rock, singer-songwriter, rock, folk, folk rock Neil Young was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 12, 1945 and, as a young boy, moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, which is where his musical career began. He has had a long and extensive musical career, becoming one of the most respected and influential musicians of his generation. According to Don’t Be Denied Songfacts,the 16-year-old Neil was raising chickens and selling the eggs, with plans to go to Ontario Agricultural College and be a farmer. Only his leisure activities foretold his future, when he would hide from his family problems in his room with his transistor radio playing local station CHUM. From this, Young learned admiration for Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and of course Elvis Presley. In 1958, his father bought Neil his first music instrument, a plastic ukulele. His father would later recall, “He would close the door of his room… and we would hear plunk, pause while he moved his fingers to the next chord, plunk, pause while he moved again, plunk.” Neil started his professional music career in the mid-1960s with a number of bands in Canada, notably the Mynah Birds, which also included fellow future Buffalo Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer and future funk star Rick James. When the Mynah Birds broke up, Young and ... Read More About Neil Young Biography...  Send Neil Young ringtones to your cell
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