 The video for
"Wonderin'" was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Most Experimental Video.
 Young won a MTV Video Music
Award for Video of the Year ("This Note's For
You") and was nominated for Viewer's Choice.
Young was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male (Freedom).
 Young was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Rockin' In The Free World").
Rolling
Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" includes "This
Note's For You" at # 4.
 Young was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year
(songwriter)
("Harvest Moon"), and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("My Back Pages" with
Bob
Dylan, Roger McGuinn,
Tom
Petty, Eric
Clapton, George
Harrison).
Young was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Philadelphia") and Best Rock Album (Sleeps
With Angels).
 Young was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Song (songwriter)
("Downtown"),
Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Peace And Love"), and Best Rock Album (Mirror
Ball).
 Young was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (Broken
Arrow).
Ranked # 30 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 19 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included After The Gold
Rush (1970) at # 71,
Harvest (1972) at # 78,
Everybody Knows
This Is Nowhere (1969) at # 208,
Tonight's The Night (1975) at # 331,
and Rust Never Sleeps (1979) at # 350.
Rolling Stone:
The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time included Young at # 34.
 A hits compilation - Greatest
Hits - was released.
March 29: Young was treated for
a brain aneurysm in New York and was expected
to make a full recovery.
 On July 2nd, Young performed in
Ontario, Canada as part of the worldwide Live
8 concerts. The mission of the
concerts was to raise awareness of the
on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure
the G8 leaders to take action by doubling
aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade
justice for Africa.
 Young performed on Shelter
From The Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast
- a benefit program shown on all the major
networks simultaneously to raise money for
those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Young performed on ReAct
Now: Music & Relief - a benefit
program shown on music video channels to
raise money for those affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
Young released Prairie
Wind (Rolling Stone:  ).
Young topped the Billboard
Internet Album chart with Prairie
Wind.
 Young performed on Saturday
Night Live.
Young appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
Prairie
Wind and Greatest
Hits were certified gold.
 Young was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance ("The
Painter") and Best Rock Album (Prairie
Wind).
Young won 3 Juno Awards for Best
Adult Alternative Album (Prairie
Wind) and Producer of the Year.
 Young released the anti-Bush,
anti-war LP, Living
With War (Billboard peak: # 15).
Young released Live
At The Fillmore East - a 1970
performance (Billboard peak: # 55 - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
 Young was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song
(awarded to the songwriter) and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Lookin'
For A Leader"), and Best Rock Album (Living
With War).
Young released the CD/DVD Live
At Massey Hall ( (Billboard peak: # 6 - Rolling Stone:  ) - the set was from a 1971
acoustic performance.
 Young topped the Billboard Top
Internet Albums chart with Live
At Massey Hall.
Young could be heard on the Fats
Domino tribute
compilation Goin'
Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino with "Walking In
New Orleans."
 Chrome
Dreams II was released.
Young topped the Top Internet
Albums with Chrome
Dreams II (
Billboard peak: # 11 - Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
 Young performed at the 21st
annual Farm Aid concert held at the Comcast
Center in Massachusetts.
The CD/DVD Sugar
Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968 was released (Billboard peak: # 40 - Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
(available at  )
Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes Young at # 37.
 Young was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("No Hidden
Path").
Young released the CD/DVD Fork
In The Road (Billboard peak: # 19).
(available at )
 The box set Neil
Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 was released (Billboard peak: # 102 - Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+) (available for download
at iTunes and Amazon-mp3).
Dreamin'
Man Live '92 was released (Entertainment
Weekly:
A-).
(available for download at )
 Young won his
first Grammy Award for Best Boxed or
Special Limited Edition Package (awarded to
the art director(s)) (with Gary Burden and
Jenice Heo) and was nominated for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Fork In The
Road").
Young released Le
Noise.
(available for download at )
 Young won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (awarded to the
songwriter) and was nominated for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Angry
World") and Best Rock Album (Le
Noise).
Young released A
Treasure.
 Live
On Air / The Lost Tapes was released.
Young along with Crazy Horse
released Americana (available for
download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3).
Young topped the Billboard Rock
Albums chart with Americana.
 Young released Psychedelic
Pill.
Billboard peak: # 8
Grammy Nominee: Best Rock Album
 Young released Live
At The Cellar Door.
Billboard peak: # 28
- November 4: Young will
release Storytone.
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 33
 Tracks: "Plastic
Flowers" - "Who's Gonna Stand
Up?" - "I Want To Drive My
Car" - "Glimmer" -
"Say Hello To Chicago" -
"Tumbleweed" - "Like You
Used To Do" - "I'm Glad I Found
You" - "When I Watch You
Sleeping" - "All Those
Dreams"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available in vinyl
 June 23: Young released The Monsanto Years.
Tracks: "A Day For
Love" - "Wolf Moon" -
"People Want To Hear About
Love" - "Big Box" -
"A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee
Shop" - "Workin' Man" -
"Rules Of Change" -
"Monsanto Years" - "If I
Don't Know"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
- November 13: Young released Bluenote Cafe.
 Live
Tracks: "Welcome To The Big
Room" - "Don't Take Your Love
Away From Me" - "This Note's
For You" - "Ten Men
Workin'" - "Life In The
City" - "Hello Lonely
Woman" - "Soul Of A Woman"
- "Married Man" - "Bad
News Comes To Town" - "Ain't It
The Truth" - "One Thing" -
"Twilight" - "I'm
Goin'" - "Crime In The
City" - "Crimes Of The
Heart" - "Welcome Rap" -
"Doghouse" - "Fool For
Your Love" - "Encore Rap"
- "One The Way Home" -
"Sunny Inside" -
"Tonight's The Night"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
- December
924: Young released Peace Trail.
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 76
Tracks: "Peace
Trail" - "Can't Stop
Workin'" - "Indian Givers"
- "Show Me" - "Texas
Rangers" - "Terrorist Suicide
Hang Gliders" - "Joan
Oakes" - "My Pledge" -
"Glass Accident" - "My New
Robot"
 September 8: Young released Hitchhiker.
Tracks:
"Pocahontas" -
"Powderfinger" - "Captain
Kennedy" - "Hawaii" -
"Give Me Strength" - "Ride
My Llama" - "Hitchhiker" -
"Campaigner" - "Human
Highway" - "The Old Country
Waltz"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available in vinyl
 December 1: Young and Promise
Of The Real released The Visitor.
Tracks: "Already
Great" - "Fly By Night
Deal" - "Almost Always" -
"Stand Tall" - "Change Of
Heart" - "Carnival" -
"Diggin' A Hole" -
"Children Of Destiny" -
"When Bad Got Good" -
"Forever"
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 167
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available in vinyl
 April 27: Roxy - Tonight's The
Night Live was released.
Live Tracks: "Intro"
- "Tonight's The Night" -
"Roll Out The Barrel" -
"Mellow My Mind" - "World
On A String" - "Band
Intro" - "Speakin' Out" -
"Candy Bar Rap" -
"Albuquerque" - "Perry
Como Rap" - "New Mama" -
"David Geffen Rap" - "Roll
Another Number (For The Road)" -
"Candy Bar 2 Rap" - "Tired
Eyes" - "Tonight's The Night
(Pt. II)" - "Walk On" -
"Outro"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
 November 30: Young released
the live LP Songs For Judy.
Live Tracks: "Intro"
- "Too Far Gone" - "No One
Seems To Know" - "Heart Of
Gold" - "White Line" -
"Love Is A Rose" - "After
The Gold Rush" - "Human
Highway" - "Tell Me Why" -
"Mr. Soul" - "Mellow My
Mind" - "Give Me Strength"
- "A Man Needs A Maid" -
"Roll Another Number" -
"Journey Through The Past" -
"Harvest" -
"Campaigner" - "Old
Laughing Lady" - "The Losing
End" - "Here We Are In The
Years" - "The Needle And The
Damage Done" -
"Pocahontas" - "Sugar
Mountain"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
  
 June 19: Young released Homegrown.
Tracks: "Separate
Ways" - "Try" -
"Mexico" - "Love Is A
Rose" - "Homegrown" -
"Florida" - "Kansas"
- "We Dont' Smoke It No More" -
"White Line" -
"Vacancy" - "Little
Wing" - "Star Of
Bethlehem"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
- September
18: Young released the EP The Times.
Tracks:
"Alabama" -
"Campaigner" - "Ohio"
- "The Times They Are
A-Changin'" - "Lookin' For A
Leader" - "Southern Man" -
"Little Wing"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
 November 6: The live LP Return To Greendale was released.
Live Tracks: "Falling
From Above" - "Double E"-
"Devil's Sidewalk" -
"Leave The Driving" -
"Carmichael" -
"Bandit" - "Grandpa's
Interview" - "Bringin' Down
Dinner" - "Sun Green" -
"Be The Rain"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
  
- July 8: Young with Crazy
Horse released Toast.
Tracks: "Quit"
- "Standign In The Light Of
Love" - "Goin' Home" -
"Timberline" - "Gateway Of
Love" - "How Ya Doin'?" -
"Boom Boom Boom"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
- August 5: Young and the Promise
Of The Real released the live LP
Noise And Flowers.
Tracks: "Mr.
Soul" - "Everybody Knows This
Is Nowhere" - "Helpless" -
"Field Of Opportunity" -
"Alabama" - "Throw Your
Hatred Down" - "Rockin' In The
Free World" - "Comes A
Time" - "From Hank To
Hendrix" - "On The Beach"
- "Are You Ready For The
Country?" - "I've Been Waiting
For You" - "Winterlong" -
"F***** Up"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
 November 18: Young & Crazy
Horse released World Record.
Tracks: "Love
Earth" - "Overhead" -
"I Walk With You (Earth
Ringtone)" - "This Old Planet
(Changing Days)" - "The World
(Is In Trouble Now)" - "Break
The Chain" - "The Long Day
Before" - "Walkin' On The Road
(To The Future)" - "The Wonder
Won't Wait" - "Chevrolet"
- "This Old Planet" (Reprise)
available on vinyl
- August 11: Neil released Chrome Dreams which included
'lost' tracks from the mid-1970s.
Tracks:
"Pocahontas" - "Will To
Love" - "Star Of
Bethlehem" - "Like A
Hurricane" - "Too Far
Gone" - "Hold Back The
Tears" - "Homegrown" -
"Captain Kennedy" -
"Stringman" - "Sedan
Delivery" -
"Powerderfinger" - "Look
Out For My Love"
 December 8: Neil released Before And After - a collection of
re-recordings of past songs.
Tracks: "I'm The
Ocean" - "Homefires" -
"Burned" - "On The Way
Home" - "If You Got Love"
- "A Dream That Can Last" -
"Birds" - "My Heart"
- "When I Hold You In My Arms"
- "Mother Earth" - "Mr.
Soul" - "Comes A Time" -
"Don't Forget Love"
- April 26: Neil released Fu##in' Up.
Tracks: "City Life
(Country Home)" - "Feels Like A
Railroad (River Of Pride)" -
"Heart Of Steel (F***** Up)" -
"Broken Circle (Over And Over)"
- "Valley Of Hearts (Love To
Burn)" - "Farmer John" -
"Walkin' In My Place (Road Of
Tears)" - "To Follow One's Own
Dream (Days That Used To Be)" -
"A Chance On Love (Love And Only
Love)"
 
- June 28: Early Daze with Crazy
Horse was released.
Tracks: "Dance Dance
Dance" - "Come On Baby Let's Go
Downtown" - "Winterlong" -
"Everybody's Alone" -
"Wonderin'" - "Cinnamon
Girl" - "Look At All The
Things" - "Helpless" -
"Birds" - "Down By The
River"
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