Harvest (1972 album)

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Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. The album featured several high calibre guests, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and James Taylor. Harvest hit #1 on the Billboard Music Charts (North America) pop albums chart.

Related Topics:
Neil Young - 1972 - London Symphony Orchestra - Linda Ronstadt - Stephen Stills - Graham Nash - James Taylor - Billboard Music Charts

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From the article on Neil Young:

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After the supergroup split, Young recruited a new group of country session musicians, which he christened The Stray Gators and recorded a country rock record in Harvest. Catching the mood that would soon lift The Eagles to superstardom, Harvest was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart Of Gold". Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: "Alabama" was an inferior rehash of "Southern Man"; "Words" featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band and The Needle and the Damage Done chronicled Danny Whitten's descent into heroin addiction. The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that "Heart Of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there."

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The Stray Gators - The Eagles - The Needle and the Damage Done - Danny Whitten - Heroin

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In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Harvest the 64th greatest album of all time. In 1996, 2000 and 2005, Charts polled readers to determine the 50 greatest Canadian albums of all time; Harvest placed second in all three polls (losing the top spot to Joni Mitchell's Blue in 2000, and to Sloan's Twice Removed in the other two polls.)

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1998 - ''Q'' magazine - 1996 - 2000 - 2005 - Chart - Canadian - Joni Mitchell - Blue - Sloan - Twice Removed

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