Neil Young
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Year:
1995
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Inducted by:
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
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Category:
Performers
Eddie Vedder Inducts Neil Young
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam Inducts Neil Young at the 1995 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Eddie Vedder Inducts Neil Young00:04:39 -
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Neil Young Acceptance Speech00:05:45 -
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"Fuckin' Up"00:06:47 -
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"Act of Love"00:10:09 -
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Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Neil Young Induct Mo Ostin00:07:58 -
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Neil Young Inducts the Pretenders00:02:50 -
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Neil Young Inducts Paul McCartney00:05:55 -
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Neil Young Inducts Tom Waits00:02:58 -
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"When The Levee Breaks"00:08:57
Hall of Fame Essay
1995
It was while waiting for a certain balladeer to play an outdoor concert in Boulder, Colorado, that I first heard Neil Young’s "After the Gold Rush.”
It was a brand-new song in that fall of 1970, sent out over a big sound system to a gathering in a field on a sunny late afternoon. The striking thing was that for all the virtues of the balladeer to come, the crowd’s peak unifying moment had come and gone with the song.
What was left of hippie tribalism was summoned up, along with that perennially muscular engagement with issues that Young has always brought to his music.
He was the king of Mountain Funk.
Photography: Kevin Mazur, WireImage
