His first stable band was the Squires, who had a local hit with the song 'The Sultan'. His first band was called the Jades, which he formed at Kelvin High School in Winnipeg. His first two bands were the Jades and the Squires His brother Bob stayed with his father in Toronto. This was a troubling time for Young, who moved to Winnipeg with his mother. When Young was 12, his father left his mother, and they were later divorced. 'Thank you, Miss Marilyn.' When his parents divorced, it had a significant impact on his life 'What a thrill!' he writes in Waging Heavy Peace. His first kiss was on a bridge with a little girl named Marilyn, whom he walked home from school. His first kiss was with a little girl named Marilyn, and he was grateful He first began to play music on a plastic ukulele. (Justin Sullivan) Young's first instrument was a plastic ukuleleĪt the age of 10 or 11, Young began developing a serious interest in music, including rock, country, R&B and doo-wop. Neil Young's largest source of childhood income was selling eggs. Foxes were a problem, so sometimes he would sleep by the chicken coop in a pup tent to protect them. Young's largest source of childhood income was selling eggs from his 50 backyard chickens, which were kept in a henhouse that his neighbour Don Scott helped build. But his largest source of childhood income was selling eggs He delivered the Globe and Mail, the newspaper where his father was a columnist.

He would get up at six every Sunday morning and drive to the corner of Brock Road and Highway 2 where the papers were dropped. When he was about 10, Young had a newspaper route. It was a serious question.'Ĭanadian music icon Joni Mitchell contracted the disease during the same epidemic. 'He was unsure of what had happened with his battle with polio.

'I remember him trying to get from one part of the living room to another by hanging onto furniture to keep his balance,' wrote his brother Bob in a letter excerpted in Neil's biography Waging Heavy Peace. Young contracted polio in the summer of 1951, at the age of five, and when he returned home from the hospital he had to re-learn how to walk. (Courtesy of Neil Young) When he was 5 years old, he contracted polio and nearly died Neil Young's formative childhood years were spent in a small town called Omemee, Ont., about 2 hours north of Toronto.

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