Many of them just put themselves in other people’s hands - and then feel frustrated that things aren’t turning out right.” “A lot of artists are weak when it comes to their own direction and their own future. “Artists are manipulated by business all the time,” Young told a British radio interviewer in 1992, of his approach to handling his affairs.

In issuing the statement, Young, 76, was commencing the most recent campaign in a decades-long artistic battle against corporate media and power structures that value profits over art.

Not both.” Not long after, Spotify abided by his request and removed Young’s entire discography. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading false information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” Young wrote, concluding, “They can have Rogan or Young. When Neil Young announced he was pulling his entire discography from music streaming giant Spotify over the platform’s alliance with podcaster and vaccine skeptic Joe Rogan, the beloved singer-songwriter explained in an open letter that he was taking a moral stand.

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