| Freedom | |||||
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| Studio album by Neil Young | |||||
| Released | October 10 1989 | ||||
| Recorded | July 25, 1988-July 10, 1989 | ||||
| Genre | Rock Hard rock |
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| Length | 61:11 | ||||
| Label | Reprise | ||||
| Producer | Neil Young, Niko Bolas | ||||
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Freedom is an album by Neil Young, released in 1989. Freedom relaunched Neil Young's career, after a mostly unsuccessful decade. After many arguments (and a lawsuit), Young left Geffen Records and returned to his original label, Reprise, in 1988 with This Note's for You. Freedom, however, brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album in the mold of his 1979 classic album, Rust Never Sleeps. Both albums consist of live songs with the audience track mainly removed. Freedom also contains one song, "Rockin' in the Free World", bookending the album in acoustic and electric variants, a stylistic choice previously featured on Rust Never Sleeps. "Rockin' in the Free World" became, despite its anti-George Bush lyrics and intentions, the defacto anthems of the collapse of communism (specifically the Fall of the Berlin Wall) due to its repeated chorus of 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World' Several of the songs on Freedom previously appeared on the Japan and Australia-only EP Eldorado. An edited cut of the electric version of "Rockin' in The Free World" was also used over the final credits of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, and the song was rereleased as a single at the time of the film's release.
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Track listing
All songs written by Neil Young, except "On Broadway" (written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller).
- "Rockin' in the Free World" – 3:38
- "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)" – 8:45
- "Don't Cry" – 4:14
- "Hangin' on a Limb" – 4:18
- "Eldorado" – 6:03
- "The Ways of Love" – 4:29
- "Someday" – 5:40
- "On Broadway" – 4:57
- "Wrecking Ball" – 5:08
- "No More" – 6:03
- "Too Far Gone" – 2:47
- "Rockin' in the Free World" – 4:41
Personnel
- Neil Young - vocals, guitar, piano
- Chad Cromwell - drums
- Rick Rosas - bass
- Frank Sampedro - guitars, keyboards, mandolin
- Ben Keith - alto saxophone, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocal
- Linda Ronstadt - vocals on "Hangin' On A Limb"
- Poncho Villa - acoustic guitar on "Eldorado"
- Tony Marsico - bass on "No More"
- Steve Lawrence: tenor saxophone
- Larry Cragg: baritone saxophone
- Claude Cailliet: trombone
- John Fumo: trumpet
- Tom Bray: trumpet
External links
Trivia
- In 2007, cult British Metal act Februus recorded cover versions of the first three tracks from "Freedom" - "Rockin' in the Free World", "Crime In The City" and "Don't Cry" - but the recordings are yet to surface in any official form.
