2010 | Earned three Grammy nominations for the album, Le Noise, including Best Rock Album |
2009 | Released the album, Fork in the Road; earned a Grammy nomination for the title track |
2006 | Released the album, Living With War; reunited with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for the supporting "Freedom Of Speech Tour '06"; Young directed "CSNY Déjà Vu," a concert film of the tour |
2006 | The live premiere of Prairie Wind in Nashville was immortalized by filmmaker Jonathan Demme in the film, "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" |
2005 | Wrote and recorded the album, Prairie Wind, in Nashville; earned two Grammy nominations |
2002 | Released the rock opera, "Greendale," with Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina; the project also resulted in a movie written and directed by Neil Young using his 'Bernard Shakey' pseudonym |
2000 | Toured the United States and Canada with Crosby, Stills and Nash for "Looking Forward" |
1997 | Released the album, Year of the Horse; also appeared in the Jim Jarmusch directed concert documentary of same name about Neil and the band |
1996 | Provided soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" |
1996 | Cast as Boar Man, one of the beast-people resulting from gene-splicing, in John Frankenheimer's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" |
1995 | Collaborated with Pearl Jam on the live-in-the-studio album, Mirror Ball and a tour of Europe |
1993 | Wrote and performed the title track for Jonathan Demme's "Philadelphia"; received an Oscar nomination |
1990 | Reunited with Crazy Horse, recording the platinum-selling album, Ragged Glory |
1990 | Played non-rocking role of Rick in "Love at Large" |
1989 | Released the single "Rockin' in the Free World" from the album, Freedom |
1988 | Reunited with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the album, American Dream |
1987 | Had a cameo as a truck driver in "Made in Heaven" |
1987 | Portrayed Westy, a cycle shop owner in "'68" |
1987 | Reunited with Crazy Horse for the subsequent year-long tour and album, Life |
1985 | Appeared at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, collaborating with Crosby, Stills and Nash |
1982 | Co-directed (with Dean Stockwell) the feature, "Human Highway," an anti-nuke comedy in which he also acted |
1980 | Provided the incidental music to a biopic of Hunter S. Thompson entitled, "Where the Buffalo Roam" |
1978 | Performed arena tour with Crazy Horse called, "Rust Never Sleeps"; the following year a live album of same name and a concert movie (directed by Young) were released |
1976 | Appeared at The Band's "Last Waltz" concert; seen in Martin Scorsese's documentary "The Last Waltz" (1978) |
1976 | Made the duet album, Long May You Run with Stills; the follow-up tour was ended midway through by Young |
1975 | Recorded Zuma with a new version of Crazy Horse (with Frank Sampedro on guitar) |
1975 | Released the album, Tonight's the Night, a musical send-off for Crazy Horse's guitarist Danny Whitten and CSNY roadie Bruce Berry, both dead from drug overdoses |
1974 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited and toured for last time |
1973 | Wrote, directed (credited as Bernard Shakey) and starred in the feature, "Journey Through the Past" |
1972 | Recorded the album, Harvest; James Taylor, Linda Ronstandt and the London Symphony Orchestra appeared on album |
1971 | After Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young disbanded, Young embarked on a solo tour entitled, "Journey Through the Past" |
1970 | Released his third solo album, After the Gold Rush, which featured a young Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills, and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves |
1970 | Wrote "Ohio" about the Kent State killings; released as a single by CSN&Y |
1970 | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released their first album, Déjà Vu |
1969 | Reunited with Stephen Stills by joining Crosby, Stills, & Nash; second live performance was before half a million people at Woodstock |
1969 | Released debut solo album, Neil Young and recorded "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," backed by Crazy Horse (Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina) |
1968 | Buffalo Springfield disbanded in May, but in order to fulfill a contractual obligation, a final album Last Time Around was released |
1967 | Band released debut album, Buffalo Springfield |
1967 | Joined Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Dewey Martin to form Buffalo Springfield |
1966 | Joined the Rick James-fronted rock band, Mynah Birds |
| First major hit as a songwriter, "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" |
| Worked folk clubs in Winnipeg, where he first met Joni Mitchell |
| Formed his first band, The Jades, and met Ken Koblun, later to join him in The Squires |
