Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps Timeline

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1945 Neil Young born in Toronto Neil Percival Young Born in Toronto, the son of sportswriter Scott Young.
1963 Neil Young forms the Squires in Winnipeg First band An instrumental rock band in the Winnipeg community-club circuit.
1966 Neil Young forms Buffalo Springfield Los Angeles Meets Stephen Stills in a Los Angeles traffic jam — the band forms days later.
1968 Neil Young releases his debut solo album Neil Young His first album after leaving Buffalo Springfield.
1969 Neil Young releases Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere First album with Crazy Horse With Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand.
1969 Neil Young plays Woodstock with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Joins CSNY Joins Crosby, Stills & Nash and plays their second-ever show at Woodstock.
1970 Neil Young and CSNY release Deja Vu Number one album The quartet's only studio album of the era.
1970 Neil Young records Ohio After Kent State Written after National Guard troops killed four students at Kent State.
1970 Neil Young releases After the Gold Rush Breakthrough With Southern Man, Only Love Can Break Your Heart and Don't Let It Bring You Down.
1972 Neil Young releases Harvest Heart of Gold The best-selling album of 1972 in the US — Heart of Gold is his only number one single.
1975 Neil Young releases Tonight's the Night The ditch trilogy A raw, grieving album about friends lost to heroin.
1979 Neil Young releases Rust Never Sleeps Hey Hey, My My One acoustic side, one electric — a link between 60s rock and punk.
1983 Neil Young sued by his own record label Geffen Records Geffen sues him for making records that don't sound like Neil Young.
1985 Neil Young co-founds Farm Aid With Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp The first Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois, for American family farmers.
1986 Neil Young holds the first Bridge School Benefit With Pegi Young Annual acoustic concerts for a school for children with severe speech and physical disabilities.
1989 Neil Young releases Freedom Rockin' in the Free World A return to form, weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
1990 Neil Young releases Ragged Glory Godfather of grunge A feedback-heavy album with Crazy Horse, hailed by the new grunge bands.
1995 Neil Young inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Inducted as a solo artist, introduced by Eddie Vedder.
1995 Neil Young releases Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam Seattle session Recorded in Seattle with Pearl Jam as his backing band.
2022 Neil Young pulls his music from Spotify Protest over Joe Rogan Removes his catalogue in protest over COVID-19 misinformation on the platform.