Neil Percival Young is a famous Canadian film director, songwriter, and singer. He was born on the 12th of November, 1945 in Toronto, Canada.
He was born to Scott Alexander Young who was a sportswriter, journalist, and fiction writer, and Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young who was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Young attended the Faulkner Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
He moved to attend the Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in the year 1959 but was expelled for riding a motorcycle down the hall of the school.
He developed an interest in music through listening to the radio. His parents got divorced in the year 1960 and he moved back to Winnipeg to live with his mother while his brother stayed with his father.
Neil went on to have an illustrious music career. He has received several Grammy and Juno Awards.
Neil Young Illness: What Disease Does Neil Young Have?
Neil has had made many childhood ailments but he suffered a brain aneurysm when he was 54 years old that nearly cost him his life.
A brain aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel that is caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall.