Neil Young: Even before he emigrated to
California to strike sparks with Buffalo Springfield, Toronto-born Neil Young
pondered the passage to adulthood in "Sugar Mountain," and his post-Springfield solo career hit a
notable peak with the country rock of "Harvest," featuring the ... moregenerational meditation of "Old Man." Since that 1974 release, he's emerged as
perhaps the most prolific and provocative rock icon after Bob Dylan. Like Dylan, Young entered the new millennium
with some of his most vital work: His brush with a life-threatening aneurysm
inspired the autumnal "Prairie Wind" and the stunning big-screen concert
retrospective, "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," directed by Jonathan Demme. Now 60, Young offered fresh
proof of his vitality with the urgent, angry "Living with War," recorded in a
burst of social protest against the Bush administration and the Iraq war and
rushed to the Internet with a speed echoing Young's equally impassioned "Ohio," a response to the Kent State killings, in
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