Tonight's the Night
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Dave Bidini: Neil wins, Leafs lose...me, these two things have been inextricably linked. The same year that I rediscovered hockey - 1984 - I also heard records like Tonight's the Night and Time Fades Away for the first time. I was reminded of these epiphanies after two recent... In this article: Neil Young, Leaf, Dave Hodge, Brett Hull, Saturday Night Live, Massey Hall, Canada, and Canada Cup |
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Pitchfork | November 03, 2009
Spider Bags - Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World
...and self-deprecating wit. On their second album, Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World, Spider Bags re-imagine Neil Young's Tonight's the Night as a Saturday-night party album: They're bleary eyed and wobbly kneed, but they're going...
In this article: Ass Ponys, New Jersey, MySpace, Grifters, Neil Young, Silver Jews, and North Carolina
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Independent.co.uk - Music | July 18, 2009
Album: Magnolia Electric Co, Josephine, (Secretly Canadian)
...died in a fire in 2007. It's a collection of hauntingly beautiful country-folk songs, as sad and disconsolate as only Molina can be - imagine Neil Young's Tonight's the Night with with desperation replacing anger. Offensive or abusive...
In this article: Magnolia Electric Co, Jason Molina, Secretly Canadian, and Neil Young
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Nils Lofgren
...around-the-clock when recording was not in session. Lofgren maintained a close musical relationship with Young, appearing on his ''Tonight's the Night '' album and tour among others. He was also briefly a member of Crazy Horse , appearing...
In this article: Nils Hilmer Lofgren, Neil Young, Washington, D.C., E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen, Crazy Horse, Bob Gordon, and Ian Hunter
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Independent.co.uk - Music | March 12, 2009
Album: Bonnie Prince Billy, Beware (Domino)
Album: Bonnie Prince Billy, Beware (Domino) The sleeve typography of Beware echoes Neil Young's Tonight's The Night, and while the contents aren't quite as dismissive of listeners' sensibilities, they're still marked by the ruthless, even...
In this article: Neil Young
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Live at the Fillmore East (Neil Young album)
...March 1970. A performance of Whitten's "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" from the same shows was previously released on Young's 1975 album Tonight's the Night '', which explores Young's grief at the loss of friends to drugs. A studio version...
In this article: Neil Young, Danny Whitten, Crazy Horse, Live at the Fillmore East, DVD, Cinnamon Girl, Miles Davis, Live at Massey Hall 1971, Fillmore East, and Sugar Mountain
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | July 21, 2008
Feature: Popless Week 29: The Dark Albums
...and has never been available on CD). Then Young's roadie Bruce Barry also died of a heroin overdose, and Young continued his trip into the darkness with Tonight's The Night, an album that in its original form reportedly featured long...
In this article: Neil Young, Plastic Ono Band, On the Beach, Nancy, Heroin, Danny Whitten, Steely Dan, and Time Fades Away
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Neil Young
...Bruce Berry, Young recorded ''Tonight's the Night ''. The album's dark tone and rawness led Reprise to delay and Young had to pressure them for two years before they would release it. It received mixed reviews at the time, but is now...
In this article: Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Lionel, Stephen Stills, Kurt Cobain, Buffalo Springfield, Rust Never Sleeps, Cerebral palsy, Homegrown, and Hey Hey, My My
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Time Fades Away
...left the group two-thirds of the way through. He was replaced by ex-Turtles and CSNY (and future Jefferson Airplane) percussionist Johnny Barbata, who plays on all of the recordings on the album. Similarly frustrated was pianist Jack...
In this article: Time Fades Away, Neil Young, Jack Nitzsche, Ben Keith, David Crosby, Danny Whitten, Kenneth Buttrey, Crazy Horse, and Oklahoma City
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Wikipedia | October 13, 2009
The Needle and the Damage Done
...by Neil Young that chronicles the descent into heroin addiction of musicians he knew. It was written about the heroin use of his Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten (before Whitten died of an overdose), and previews the theme of "Tonight's...
In this article: Neil Young, The Needle and the Damage Done, Our Lady Peace, Heroin, John Frusciante, Eddie Vedder, Danny Whitten, and Crazy Horse
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Tonight's the Night is a 1975 album by Neil Young.
Dark, heartfelt, and raw, Tonight's the Night was recorded in 1973 but initially rejected by Young's record company (a running theme in Young's career) as the second uncommercial release in a row and an unacceptable follow-up to his popular breakthrough, Harvest, and too stark a contrast with Young's work with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Young's album was a startlingly direct expression of grief: Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and Young's friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of drug overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The title track mentions Bruce Berry by name, while Whitten's guitar and vocal work highlight "Come on Baby, Let's Go Downtown", recorded live in 1970. (The song would later appear, unedited, on a live album from the same concerts, Live at the Fillmore East.)
- Name:
- Tonight's the Night
- Type:
- studio
- Genre:
- Country rock, Rock
- Release Date:
- June 20, 1975
- Produced by:
- David Briggs, Tim Mulligan, Neil Young, Elliot Mazer (track 10 only)
- Recorded By:
- Neil Young
- Length:
- 44:52
- Record Label:
- Reprise
- Recording Dates:
- 1973
- Manufacturer:
- Warner Bros / Wea
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