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9/19/1970 Neil Young releases After the Gold Rush

 

After the Gold Rush from Neil Young got its release on this day in 1970.  Young's third solo album was mostly recorded in the basement of his Topanga Canyon home just north of LA.  CSN&Y bass player Greg Reeves was in on the sessions as was Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina and Grin member and future E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren, who played piano on Young's album.  The title track, Don't let It Bring You Down, When You Dance I Can Really Love, Tell Me Why and Only Love Can Break Your Heart all became FM Rock radio staples, but Southern Man, Young's scathing song about southern bigotry was far and away the album's biggest and most enduring track.  That song also provoked a musical rebuke of Young from Lynyrd Skynyrd in the song Sweet Home Alabama a few years later.  

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on September 19 include...

 

1934 Beatles manager Brian Epstein born.   

1941 Mamas and Pappas Cass Elliott born. 

1947 10cc's Lol Creme born.

1951 Producer Daniel Lanois (U2, Neil Young, ZZ Top) born. 

1952 Producer Nile Rogers(David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, B-52s, INXS, The Vaughan Brothers) born.   

1958 Lita Ford born.   

1970 T-Rex headlines the first Glastonbury Festival in place of the Kinks. 

1973 Gram Parsons dies of morphine and alcohol overdose at Joshua Tree Monument, California. 

1974 Max Weinberg makes drumming debut as member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band in Philadelphia.  

1979 Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty play Musicians United For Safe Energy - No Nukes concert in New York City. Other performers include Bonnie Raitt, the Doobie Brothers,  Stephen Stills and David Crosby, Poco, James Taylor, Carly Simon, John Hall, Ry Cooder, Jesse Colin Young and Nicolette Larson. 

1981 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a Central Park concert in New York City.

1987 Farm Aid in Lincoln, Nebraska features Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Joe Walsh, Lou Reed, Steppenwolf, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett.

2009 LA-Miami flight makes medical emergency landing after Scott Weiland suffers a seizure. 

2015 The record contract Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Pete Best signed in 1961 sells for $75,000. 

2017 Bruce Springsteen does rehearsal performance for his Broadway residency shows for 200 invited guests at Monmouth College in Long Branch, NJ...