# How rich is Neil Young? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 6, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-neil-young/810141 "2018-03-06T19:47:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-neil-young/810141/61 "2019-06-13T19:53:35Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > I might be biased, as I have had the privilege of seeing Neil Young play live some 20 or so times over the years, in several different pairings, solo, with Crazy Horse, with Crosby Stills and Nash (for free, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park then he sat in with the Grateful Dead later that same afternoon) with Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen in New York City’s iconic Roseland Ballroom, at Denver’s magnificent Red Rocks Ampitheater, at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in a relentless deluge of truly Biblical proportions, etc., etc., etc., and I don’t think that there is any question that Neil Young is the most well-known Canadian musician on Earth, unless you perhaps count Justin Bieber, who I suppose might be more FAMOUS internationally, although I would argue that he is certainly not respected by people who are serious about music. > > (In a couple of weeks I am flying to Munich to see Neil Young with Promise of the Real, something that should be worth hoisting a stein or two to) Well damn, man. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![40below](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/51bf81/32.png) [@40below](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/40below)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-neil-young/810141/62 "2019-06-13T23:28:28Z")
As far as Neil goes, I met him in 2006 or so at his dad’s funeral in Ontario, Neil and Pegi and their oldest son flew in to Toronto and rented a full-size van with a lift because he was in a heavy duty motorized chair to attend the funeral of Scott. Anyway, it was amazing because Neil was too choked to talk but not too choked to sing a bit, and he and Pegi sang a few duets in this tiny funeral chapel that seated maybe 100. Still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, it was beautiful. But they did the 3+ hour drive alone, no driver, no nurses, not even a personal care aide to help them with this massive chair that weighed several hundred pounds. They didn’t even ask for help and Neil parked his own car. He could have afforded to hire a nurse to come with him, hell he’s Neil Young, he could pack that van full of RNs for free by pulling up to any hospital in Canada and offering anybody with a nursing degree the chance to take a road trip with Neil friggin’ YOUNG, but he didn’t. Usually when you meet a celebrity, they’re less than you imagined. Neil was surprisingly more, and a chill guy in person. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-neil-young/810141/63 "2019-06-14T16:13:20Z")
You’re not the only one impressed by him… > **[Bob Dylan turns up at Neil Young's childhood home for a tour | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bob-dylan-turns-up-at-neil-young-s-childhood-home-for-a-tour-1.755913)** > > When you live in the house where a world-famous musician grew up, it's expected to be a bit of a draw. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-neil-young/810141.md?page=3)