Thread by @dean_frey

Happy birthday Neil Young 🎂
📷 Mark Seliger
"An artist like Neil always has the upper hand. It’s the pop world that has to make adjustments."
- Bob Dylan

Neil Young in Peter Tork's pool, between rehearsals
📷 Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1969, for their album Déja Vu
@smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Wait, you count six? Ahmet Ertegun convinced CS&N to add Neil Young, & on Déja Vu they added session musicians Greg Reeves & Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr.

Neil Young by Julie Gardner, 2014
"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media

Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2005
"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
- Marshall McLuhan

Neil Young by Kevin Cummins, 1995
"He has no problem with failure as long as he is doing work he is happy with. Whether it ends up as a win or loss on a consumer level is not as much of an interest to him as one might think."
- Elliot Roberts

On Neil Young's birthday, I'm listening to his 1974 album On The Beach
The cover photo is by Bob Seidemann

Neil Young by Guido Harari
Milan, 1989
"Young has never been physically whole, but that brokenness has annealed rather than slowed him. He is anything but a frail man when he has a guitar in his hand."
- David Carr

Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1976
"He likes it when the zeitgeist howls back."
- Steve Erickson

Another shot of Neil Young by Ronald van Caem, 1970s
A musician's sunglasses are a photographer's best friend.

My favourite cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" is by @Neilyoung, from his 2014 album A Letter Home

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An intense moment from Neil Young is captured by Robert Altman (the photographer, not the director), during a concert with Crazy Horse on March 20, 1970

Julie Gardner
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Newcastle, June 10, 2013
"Zen yet a little obsessive, open yet a little unapproachable, lurching toward his ambitions yet held back by his wariness of having to explain himself."
- Steve Erickson

Neil Young by Jim Goldberg
Napa, 2019
'Are you who I think you are?' she asks.
'Who do you think I am?' he says.
'Are you Neil Young?'
'Yeah,' he finally answers.
nytimes.com/2000/07/30/mag…

Neil Young by Joel Bernstein, from 1970. That's Graham Nash on the right

A crop of this shot became the cover of Neil Young's 1970 album After The Gold Rush. This was Joel Bernstein's very first album cover, in a long & distinguished career.

Coffee with Neil Young ☕️
📷 Henry Diltz, 1971

Coffee with Neil Young, in colour! ☕️🦚
📷 Henry Diltz, 1975

Cameron Crowe:
"The cover photo, taken at sunset on their last day in the islands, tells it all - a clear portrait of four tanned men, all living in completely separate worlds. The print is now tacked up on Neil Young’s bedroom wall at his ranch."
The photo is by Graham Nash

Graham Nash took this shot of Neil Young driving to his ranch at Broken Arrow in 1988. Nash was in a limo with David Crosby & Steven Stills.
"I saw him driving along this lonely road & I thought, 'This is a perfect image of Neil Young.'"

Neil Young in his 1947 Buick Roadmaster, photographed by Joel Bernstein at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, Hollywood, September 1973
"At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media

Neil Young by Carlo Massarini
Milan, 1989
"As if you ever doubted it for a moment, he loves to go through the wall, beyond the end of notes."
- Steve Erickson

Neil Young by Danny Clinch, 2016
"Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant."
- Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media

#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on @Neilyoung's birthday
📷 Henry Diltz, 1971
Paul @holdengraber talks with the most interesting people
lithub.com/?s=phone+call+…
@lithub
@CallFromPaul

Neil Young at the Broken Arrow Ranch, Half Moon Bay, California
📷 Henry Diltz, 1971
Young's dog was named Harte.
"With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature."
- Marshall McLuhan

Neil Young by Aaron Rapoport
"I've always been better moving than I am standing still."

Another shot of Neil Young by Aaron Rapoport
#Cadillac

Neil Young singing Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds", from the Heart of Gold concert film. The song was chosen in 2005 as Canada's greatest in CBC's 50 Tracks program. Heart of Gold was no. 3! 🇨🇦
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Tracks

Neil Young with David Crosby & Graham Nash
📷 Ed Perlstein, Santa Cruz, 1977

My #MtRushmore of Canadian songwriters
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young

Neil Young has a @MooseheadLager
📷 Henry Diltz, Malibu