Neil Young

Person · Open Library

Born

1945

Works

86

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

CA

Active from

1945-11-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,760,572

Total plays

113,525,462

Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, and social activist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation, particularly as Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Young was born in Toronto, but he moved to the family home of Winnipeg as a child, which is where his music career began. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfiel

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

2. CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module

   · 2018 · cited 17,159x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,320x

4. A method for registration of 3-D shapes

   · 1992 · cited 13,915x

5. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,090x

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Quotes

• “Oh, to live on Sugar MountainWith the barkers and the colored balloons,You can't be twenty on Sugar MountainThough you're thinking thatYou're leaving there too soon,You're leaving there too soon.”
• “Did you see them in the river?They were there to wave to you.Could you tell that the empty quiver,Brown skinned Indian on the banksThat were crowded and narrow,Held a broken arrow?”
• “There you stood on the edge of your featherExpecting to fly.While I laughed, I wondered whetherI could wave goodbyeKnowin' that you'd gone.”
• “I gave to you, now, you give to meI'd like to know what you learned.The sky is blue and so is the seaWhat is the color, when black is burned?”
• “There is a town in north Ontario,With dream comfort memory to spare,And in my mind I still need a place to go,All my changes were there.”
• “Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drummin'.Four dead in Ohio.”

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Wikidata facts

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