After parents' divorce, moved with mother to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Played in several high school rock bands

Moved back to Toronto and worked in folk clubs, meeting Steven Stills, Richie Furay and Joni Mitchell

Formed rock band The Mynah Birds (fronted by future 'Super Freak' Rick James)

Formed Buffalo Springfield along with Palmer, Stills, Furay and Dewey Martin; originally called the Herd (not to be confused with Peter Frampton's first group)

Band released debut album "Buffalo Springfield"

Buffalo Springfield disbanded in May; Young had actually quit the band on the eve of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival (replaced by David Crosby)

Released debut solo LP "Neil Young" and recorded "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", backed by Crazy Horse (Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina)

Joined Crosby, Stills and [Graham] Nash to form CSN&Y, despite having squabbled repeatedly with Stills during Buffalo Springfield days; second live performance was before half a million people at Woodstock

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released "Deja Vu"

Wrote "Ohio" about the Kent State killings; released as a single by CSN&Y

Solo LP "After the Gold Rush" featured Crazy Horse and 17-year-old keyboardist-vocalist Nils Lofgren (guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band)

CSN&Y disbanded

Recorded LP "Harvest", which yielded Number 1 single "Heart of Gold"; James Taylor, Linda Ronstandt and the London Symphony Orchestra appeared on album

Wrote, directed (credited as Bernard Shakey) and starred in the feature "Journey Through the Past"

CSN&Y reunited and toured for last time (Young travelled separately); released "So Far"

Put out the raw uncommercial masterpiece "Tonight's the Night", literally a pain-filled musical send-off for Crazy Horse's guitarist Danny Whitten and CSN&Y roadie Bruce Berry, both dead from drug overdoses

Recorded "Zuma" with a new version of Crazy Horse (Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro replaced Whitten)

Made duet album "Long May You Run" with Stills but left him mid-tour

Appeared at The Band's "Last Waltz" concert; seen in Martin Scorsese's documentary "The Last Waltz" (1978)

Did arena tour with Crazy Horse called "Rust Never Sleeps"; a live album of same name, a second LP "Live Rust" and the concert movie "Rust Never Sleeps" (directed by Young) all came out following year

Co-directed (with Dean Stockwell) the feature "Human Highway", an anti-nuke comedy in which he also acted

Reassembled Crazy Horse for first time since 1981 for barnstorming tour of USA that produced the album "Life"

Portrayed Westy, a cycle shop owner in "'68"

Had a cameo as a truck driver in "Made in Heaven"

Worked again with CSN&Y on LP "American Dream"

Released "Freedom" to best reviews since "Rust Never Sleeps"

Played non-rocking role of Rick in "Love at Large"

Hosted "Farm Aid IV" (TNN)

Reunited with Crazy Horse, recording the platinum-selling "Ragged Glory"

Wrote and performed the title track for Jonathan Demme's "Philadelphia"; received an Oscar nomination

Borrowed Pearl Jam to back him on "Mirror Bell"; went with them on acclaimed European tour

Cast as Boar Man, one of the beast-people resulting from gene-splicing, in John Frankenheimer's "The Island of Dr. Moreau"

Provided soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"

"Year of the Horse" CD released; Jim Jarmusch-directed concert documentary of same name about Neil and the band also released

Toured the United States and Canada with Crosby, Stills and Nash

Released an anti-Bush rock opera "Greendale," the album version of which was recorded with Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina; the project also resulted in a movie written and directed by Neil Young using his 'Bernard Shakey' pseudonym

Wrote and recorded the album, "Prairie Wind," in Nashville; earned two Grammy nominations