Neil Young is known for many classic songs, which are part of rock history.
His first days in Buffalo Springfield gave us “for what it is worth” and “Mr. Soul”. His mandate in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young gave “teaching your children”, “our house” and “ohio”. As a solo artist, Young has been doing music for generations with endearing classics such as “Heart of Gold”, “Old Man”, “Rockin ‘in the Free World” and “Harvest Moon”.
But the franc The favorite song of 79 years is not the one you expect, mainly because it has not played live for more than four decades – so far.
On May 23, Young made a share of benefits at Lakefield College in Ontario, Canada. Halfway through the show, he played “My Boy”, a song from his 1985 album, Old ways. It is a song that Neil has not interpreted since 1983, according to Stereogum.
Neil Young performs at Poplar Creek Music Theater in 1983, last year, he interpreted his song “Favorite” live – so far.
The Country album in the mid -80s produced three singles, including none of which was “My Boy”, which makes it a deep cup that only the pure and hard fans of Neil Young know.
Fortunately, a fan Shared images of Neil playing The 2025 concert song on YouTube.
“By practicing for Lakefield, I played” my boy “(and) thinking of my own father,” wrote Young in a blog Before the show. The rock icon said that his father, journalist and novelist Scott Young, who died in 2005, “must have heard this song”.
“My father was a great guy and Zeke is a wonderful son,” said Young. “I think” my boy “is my favorite recording of all those I made.”
Neil wrote how much he loved the Guitarist in pedal steel Ben Keith and the Oldman Spooner pianist playing on the song, “as well as all the others. They are moving musicians. I really was lucky!”
Daryl Hannah and Neil Young at SXSW 2018.photo by Matt Winkelmeyer & Sol; Getty Images for Sxsw
Young said the Benefit Fair would help pay the renovation of the Canadian Heritage Farm to the Lakefield campus.
“It was built in 1900 along the Lakeshore, and we will bring it back so that all the lucky children who come to Lakefield College around the world can appreciate the wonderful Canadian feeling,” he wrote.
Young and his wife, Daryl Hannahvisited the Northcote campus of the school last fall, by Peterborough’s examinerAnd fell in love with his commitment to practical education focused on sustainability.
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