Pegi Young

Storytone arrived at the end of a year that already saw another new Neil Young album – that would be A Letter Home, a collection of folk covers recorded at Jack White's Voice-O-Graph direct-to-vinyl recording booth at Third Man Records – which itself was only the tip of the iceberg that was Neil's 2014. That spring, Young launched a high-end digital audio system called Pono, which was followed by the summer news that he was divorcing Pegi, his wife of 36 years, an event that led to a fresh feud with David Crosby that then led to Young saying he would never play with CSN again and, if that weren't enough, Young also published his second book, Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars, just prior to the release of Storytone.

He is an Alabama cowboy, a male camellia lady, a godfather of grunge. On the occasion of his 60th birthday on November 12th, 2005, Neil Young played three days in the NBC late night show from talk master Conan O'Brien to present his album Prairie Wind. He staged himself as long-haired grandfather, patriarch of a widely ramified musical family between LSD-, country-, blues-, heavy metal- and grunge-rock. However he didn't forget that he is an outlaw and that he has to make a stand against the whole world. No, this man can't stop, he loves his country and provokes with statements about patriotism and against the Bush administration as well as with the essential question what remained from the dream of the hippie generation. This man is not getting any older. Whilst other rock musicians in his age confine themselves to serve the nostalgic wants of their fans, Neil Young tries to prevent that. This man has no need to acknowledge any guilts. Neil Young was always older and that's why is now younger than anybody else. Long may you run! [Amazon]