'In a world where too many people are Eric Clapton... be Neil Young.'

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Rolling Stone @RollingStone
“They can have Joe Rogan or Young,” Neil Young wrote in a letter to his manager and label, “Not both." Young demands Spotify remove his music over "false information about vaccines"

Neil Young posted a since-deleted letter to his management team and record label demanding that they remove his music from Spotify. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

“I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.” Young is referencing the steady stream of misinformation about vaccines that Joe Rogan has peddled on The Joe Rogan Experience. Last month, 270 doctors, physicians, and science educators signed an open letter asking Spotify to stop spreading Rogan’s baseless claims.

“With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence,” the letter reads. “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.”

read: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-demands-spotify-remove-music-vaccine-disinformation-1290020/

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“I didn’t die, did I?” That was Canadian musician Neil Young’s comment to his dad, journalist Scott Young, after leaving the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) where he was treated for polio. It was 1951 and Neil was 5 years old.
https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/once-upon-a-city-archives/2017/07/06/once-upon-a-city-sweeping-polio-outbreak-hits-toronto.html

[kcr]

1. Hopefully other artists will join him

[Traildogbob]

18. Graham Nash has.

[PatSeg]

2. Good for him!

[hlthe2b]

3. Always. Neil Young is a treasure--both artistically and as a human.

[lame54]

4. Rockin' in the fact-free world

[Walleye]

5. Well I didn't know he was a polio survivor at age 5 wow

[VGNonly]

6. Joni Mitchell

got it the same year. She had some damage in her hand from it. That led to Joni's "weird tunings" that incorporate her style.

[Walleye]

7. I had read that. She suffered from it later I think. It's certainly lead to some beautiful guitar

[KPN]

8. Gotta love Neil. A North American treasure!

[calimary]

9. I've loved him for a lifetime.

Now I love him even more!!!

[Paladin]

10. Oh, I want a T-shirt with that "...be Neil Young" statement.

Clapton is dead to me.

[bigtree]

14. credit

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Link to tweet

[Red Pest]

11. In 1969, I had the priviledge to be at an early performance by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

at the Troubadour (in Los Angeles). We were sitting right in front of the stage and were talking with Neil and the band. We (six of us) had just come from our high school prom (we left early for this) and Neil commented on our prom clothes - the men (including me) in tuxedos and the women in prom dresses. It was a funny, but very nice conversation. Then they started to play. It was great! I was already a fan, but that performance...wow! My feeling about him and his music continues to grow. A real mensch.

[bigtree]

13. cool memory

...now it's in my head.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R

[Stargleamer]

15. It's so good to have a Heart of Gold

[PatrickforB]

16. Good for Neil.

Rogan is a really bad influence for all of us.

[Hekate]

17. KnR

The thing is, I am just old enough to personally remember the last great polio epidemic that terrified our parents — and ensured that every school in the country had its share of crippled children wielding their braces and crutches, just in case anyone forgot.

[oasis]

19. Another hero. Neil Young comes up big. nt

[Richard D]

20. This has to happen:

Dear Spotify,

If Neil leaves, I leave.

Sincerely,

All the sane people.

[malaise]

21. Great OP

rec

[CentralMass]

22. You gotta love Neil Young.

[progressoid]

23. Yeah, they aren't going to cancel that cash cow.

Sadly his podcast almost always makes the top 20 list.

[ret5hd]

24. Be The Rain: