Tonight's the Night is the eighth album by Neil Young, released in 1975 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2221. It was recorded in 1973, its release delayed for two years. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200. In 2003, the album was ranked number 331 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Dark, heartfelt, and raw, Tonight's the Night is a startlingly direct expression of grief. Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten...
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Tonight's the Night is the eighth album by Neil Young, released in 1975 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2221. It was recorded in 1973, its release delayed for two years. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200. In 2003, the album was ranked number 331 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Dark, heartfelt, and raw, Tonight's the Night is a startlingly direct expression of grief. Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and Young's friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of drug overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The title track mentions Bruce Berry by name, while Whitten's guitar and vocal work highlight "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown", recorded live in 1970. The song would later appear, unedited, on a live album from the same concerts, Live at the Fillmore East, and credited to Whitten only as author.
Included with the vinyl release of Tonight's the Night was a seemingly strange insert that added to Neil Young's claim that Tonight...
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