Presenting the definitive guide to Neil Young’s albums, songs, films and books, MOJO The Collectors’ Series: Neil Young Essentials is on sale now and available to order for delivery HERE!
On November 12, Neil Young turns 80, an incredible milestone which he’s been celebrating by doing exactly what he always does – release records and tour. Since the start of this year, Young has performed shows across the USA and Europe, including a headlining set at Glastonbury Festival, and released what we calculate to be his 45th studio album, Talkin To The Trees – or maybe it’s his 50th, or more, if you factor in the ‘lost’ LPs he’s been unearthing from his vaults.
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Young’s musical journey since his high school bands in Canada in the early ’60s has, by any measure, been truly epic. From Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to country-folk superstar and heavy rocker, he’s never taken his foot off the gas.
Which is where MOJO Essentials comes in. Over 132 info-packed pages, our team of experts will guide you through the maze of Neil Young releases out there, whether it’s his coruscating riffage with Crazy Horse on landmark releases such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) and Rust Never Sleeps (1979), his dark and unsettling ‘Ditch Trilogy’ comprising Time Fades Away, On The Beach and Tonight’s The Night (1973-1975), stirring solo acoustic works such as After The Gold Rush (1972) and Harvest Moon (1992), or challenging outings like the electronic pop-rock of Trans (1983), retro ’50s sounds of Everybody’s Rockin’ (1983) and mind-bending jam-fest of Psychedelic Pill (2012).
On top of these, we also take a deep dive into Young’s in-concert albums, films projects and books, as well as his expansive Archives series, which over the past two decades has made available dozens of vintage live recordings and unheard songs, as well as rare film footage and soundtracks, swelling an already vast body of extraordinary and revered work to (sugar) mountainous proportions.
Illustrated with rare and iconic photographs and album artwork, Neil Young Essentials is a must-have purchase for all fans of the self-proclaimed ‘Contrarian’ and music connoisseurs everywhere.
