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Neil Young: Trivia
When
Kurt Cobain commited suicide on 5 April 1994, he left a suicide note which quoted Young's song "My My, Hey Hey": "it's better to burn out than to fade away"
The piano Young played on
After the Goldrush was later purchased by Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett and used on the album
Daisies of the Galaxy.
Young's hobbies include collecting model trains (he has an extensive "train barn" on his Northern California ranch), collecting and restoring classic automobiles, and attending San Jose Sharks hockey games with his son, Ben Young.
Young's full birth name is reportedly Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young.
Young owns a wooden schooner, the
Ragland, which he named after his mother, Rassy Ragland.
Police knocked out one of Young's teeth when they assaulted him in the aftermath of one of the notorious Sunset Strip riots of 1967. Comparison of modern concert footage with Buffalo Springfield footage shows that Young has had extensive dental work in the intervening years.
When filming the motion-picture
The Last Waltz, Young appeared on stage with one nostril clearly filled with cocaine. Band leader Robbie Robertson later had to pay several thousand dollars for the cocaine to be rotoscoped out of the film, lest rock audiences be "offended." Robertson called it "the most expensive cocaine I've ever bought." When asked about the incident many years later, Young replied, "I'm not proud of that."
Young's tour busses operate on biodiesel.
Crazy Horse guitarist Poncho Sampedro was amazed when he first toured Japan with Young in the mid-1970s--their plane was met at Tokyo airport by masses of Japanese youth, all of whom had their straight hair parted down the middle, all of whom were wearing flannel shirts and patched jeans just like their hero, all of whom were welcoming the band with chants of "Neileru, Neileru!"
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