Neil Young was born November 12 1945 in Toronto, Ontario. He was a fantastic singer, everyone loved his music. He has received many awards in the past from the following:
Best Rock Song
Artist of The Year
Adult Alternative Album of The Year
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Best Male Artist
MusicCares Person of The Year
Video of The Year
Canadain Music Hall of Fame
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance Best Rock Album
Songwriter of The Year
David Briggs, a record producer best known for his 26-year association with the rock artist Neil Young, died on Nov. 25 at his home in San Francisco. He was 51. The cause was lung cancer, said Joel Bernstein, Mr. Young's archivist. Mr. Briggs was born in Douglas, Wyoming. He hitchhiked to Los Angeles when he was 16 and soon found a job as a staff producer at Bill Cosby's Tetragrammaton Records. He went out on his own in the late 1960's, working on albums by Alice Cooper, Spirit, Jerry Williams, Nils Lofgren and Grin. He developed a reputation as a passionate and opinionated producer, placing great demands on the musicians with whom he worked to get the rawest, most direct sound he could in the least amount of time. He met Mr. Young in 1968 when he picked him up hitchhiking in Topanga Canyon, the hippie enclave north of Los Angeles. Mr. Briggs worked on 18 of Mr. Young's albums, including "Tonight's The Night," Rust Never Sleeps" and "Ragged Glory." He also worked with more recent artists, including Nick Cave and Royal Trux. He is survived by his wife, Bettina, of San Francisco, and a son, Lincoln, of Los Angeles. http://thrasherswheat.org/tfa/briggs_obituary.htm
As a youth, he survived diabetes, polio, epilepsy and the divorce of his parents. His father was a highly respected sportswriter for The Toronto Sun. In 1960, Neil moved with his mother to Winnipeg,Manitoba. It was there that music first became the driving force in his life.After switching from ukulele to guitar, he was in a succession of Winnipeg- based bands, including The Jades, The Esquires, The Classics and Neil Young & The Squires. Initially an instrumental band in the mold of The Shadows, The Squires eventually became more of a folk-rock group. Several early Neil originals from this era, including "Ain't It The Truth" and "Find Another Shoulder," would be resurrected years later with the Bluenotes.
In 1965, a friend asked Neil Young for a ride. Young was a working musician in Fort William, Ontario and his friend had a show in Sudbury, about 650 kilometers away. On a whim, Neil agreed to drive him there in Mort, his 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse. Somewhere along the way, the transmission fell out of the car. Neil Young was only nineteen.
Young, who had planned to return to Fort William, took Mort's death as an omen, a sign that he couldn't turn back to either Fort William or Winnipeg, where his mother lived. Heading, instead, to Toronto, his birthplace, he wrote a bunch of gloomy songs about failure and yearning, was dismissed as clichéd in the local paper and skulked around various Yorkville coffeehouses. But even at such an early, feckless age, he would do anything to be a rock star. There were a couple of brushes with success, including an audition in a closet at Elektra Records and a stint with Rick James in the most mind-boggling Motown band-that-never-was, the Mynah Birds. Following on his ambition, he decided that he needed to leave. In March 1966, after hawking some guitars and ampliers that didn't technically belong to him and borrowing a sleeping bag, Young took another hearse across America. This time, with Neil driving the whole trip wired on amphetamines, the hearse carried him to fame. He had set out for Los Angeles, looking for his friend Stephen Stills, whom he'd met in Fort William. During a traffic jam on Sunset Boulevard, Stills spotted a hearse with Ontario license plates and knew it had to be Young. He was only twenty.
Neil Young was born November 12 1945 in Toronto, Ontario. He was a fantastic singer, everyone loved his music. He has received many awards in the past from the following:
David Briggs, a record producer best known for his 26-year association with the rock artist Neil Young, died on Nov. 25 at his home in San Francisco. He was 51. The cause was lung cancer, said Joel Bernstein, Mr. Young's archivist. Mr. Briggs was born in Douglas, Wyoming. He hitchhiked to Los Angeles when he was 16 and soon found a job as a staff producer at Bill Cosby's Tetragrammaton Records. He went out on his own in the late 1960's, working on albums by Alice Cooper, Spirit, Jerry Williams, Nils Lofgren and Grin. He developed a reputation as a passionate and opinionated producer, placing great demands on the musicians with whom he worked to get the rawest, most direct sound he could in the least amount of time. He met Mr. Young in 1968 when he picked him up hitchhiking in Topanga Canyon, the hippie enclave north of Los Angeles. Mr. Briggs worked on 18 of Mr. Young's albums, including "Tonight's The Night," Rust Never Sleeps" and "Ragged Glory." He also worked with more recent artists, including Nick Cave and Royal Trux. He is survived by his wife, Bettina, of San Francisco, and a son, Lincoln, of Los Angeles. http://thrasherswheat.org/tfa/briggs_obituary.htm
As a youth, he survived diabetes, polio, epilepsy and the divorce of his parents. His father was a highly respected sportswriter for The Toronto Sun. In 1960, Neil moved with his mother to Winnipeg,Manitoba. It was there that music first became the driving force in his life.After switching from ukulele to guitar, he was in a succession of Winnipeg- based bands, including The Jades, The Esquires, The Classics and Neil Young & The Squires. Initially an instrumental band in the mold of The Shadows, The Squires eventually became more of a folk-rock group. Several early Neil originals from this era, including "Ain't It The Truth" and "Find Another Shoulder," would be resurrected years later with the Bluenotes.
In 1965, a friend asked Neil Young for a ride. Young was a working musician in Fort William, Ontario and his friend had a show in Sudbury, about 650 kilometers away. On a whim, Neil agreed to drive him there in Mort, his 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse. Somewhere along the way, the transmission fell out of the car. Neil Young was only nineteen.
Young, who had planned to return to Fort William, took Mort's death as an omen, a sign that he couldn't turn back to either Fort William or Winnipeg, where his mother lived. Heading, instead, to Toronto, his birthplace, he wrote a bunch of gloomy songs about failure and yearning, was dismissed as clichéd in the local paper and skulked around various Yorkville coffeehouses. But even at such an early, feckless age, he would do anything to be a rock star. There were a couple of brushes with success, including an audition in a closet at Elektra Records and a stint with Rick James in the most mind-boggling Motown band-that-never-was, the Mynah Birds. Following on his ambition, he decided that he needed to leave. In March 1966, after hawking some guitars and ampliers that didn't technically belong to him and borrowing a sleeping bag, Young took another hearse across America. This time, with Neil driving the whole trip wired on amphetamines, the hearse carried him to fame. He had set out for Los Angeles, looking for his friend Stephen Stills, whom he'd met in Fort William. During a traffic jam on Sunset Boulevard, Stills spotted a hearse with Ontario license plates and knew it had to be Young. He was only twenty.