Neil Young's Life And Accomplishments

At the beginning of the course when this assignment was explained, I automatically knew that I was going to choose Neil Young as my topic since he fits the criteria of the assignment perfectly. To begin with, Young was born on November 12, 1946 in Toronto Canada. From a young age, Neil was attracted to music and began to appreciate music more and more. Young promptly learned how to play folk songs on a plastic ukulele that his father gave him and then years later he accomplished to play acoustic guitar. His passion in music was so immense “that he formed his first band while being in junior high school” (Neil Young Biography). As the years past, Young continued in developing his musical talents. Young was so focused on music that in “1963 he dropped …show more content…
While doing this assignment I found out that there was a book on Neil Young’s childhood called “Young Neil” by Sharry Wilson. I was able to read parts of the book and it is amazing how dedicated and hungry Neil Young was about music. In his musical career, “Young cherished great success as part of a band or group but his biggest success came as a solo artist” (Wilson, 2014). In 1972, Young wrote and released two songs that made his solo career even more famous. Those two songs are “Heart of Gold” and “Old Man”, they are my personal favorite’s songs and are known to be his biggest hits. If you ask someone that knows about music to describe Neil Young, many people will describe him as inspirational and thoughtful. That is exactly how most of his songs were. “Neil Young buries the true meaning deep within a simple story line” (Wilson, 2014). The reason why I believe he was so successful is because everyone can relate to most of his songs. For example, in “Old man”, Neil Young sings about the owner of a ranch he bought. He compares how the old man is so similar to him and shows that the old man was once