Liam Finn ( Neil Finn's son) & EJ Barnes ( Jimmy Barnes's daughter) covered the song on the TV show RocKwiz.In 2008, during the memorial service for Heath Ledger, the song was chosen to be played with a slideshow of pictures from Ledger's life.It also appears in the film Lords of Dogtown. In 2005, Lizz Wright covered it on her live album Dreaming Wide Awake, recorded at Allaire, Shokan, New York the year before.He tells a similar story when introducing the song at a Februperformance broadcast by the BBC (in which he says that he purchased the ranch from "two lawyers"). ![]() He gets me up there on the top side of the place, and there's this lake up there that fed all the pastures, and he says, "Well, tell me, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?" And I said, "Well, just lucky, Louis, just real lucky." And he said, "Well, that's the darnedest thing I ever heard." And I wrote this song for him. ![]() And there was this old blue Jeep there, and Louis took me for a ride in this blue Jeep. And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers, an old gentleman named Louis Avila and his wife Clara. In the film Heart of Gold, Young introduces the song as follows:Ībout that time when I wrote (" Heart of Gold"), and I was touring, I had also-just, you know, being a rich hippie for the first time-I had purchased a ranch, and I still live there today. James Taylor played six-string banjo (tuned like a guitar) and sang on the song, and Linda Ronstadt also contributed vocals. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the young man has, to some extent, the same needs as the old one. The song was written for the caretaker of the Northern California Broken Arrow Ranch, which Young purchased for $350,000 in 1970 ($2,688,252.58 as of 2022). ![]() "Old Man" was released as a single on Reprise Records in the spring of 1972, reaching number 4 in Canada, and number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the week ending June 3. " Old Man" is a song written and performed by Canadian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Neil Young from his 1972 album Harvest.
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