After the Gold Rush ( song ) - wikipedia After the Gold Rush ( song ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2015 ) `` After the Gold Rush '' Song by Neil Young and Crazy Horse from the album After the Gold Rush Released September 19, 1970 Recorded March 12, 1970 Genre Folk rock Length 3 : 45 Label Reprise Songwriter ( s ) Neil Young Producer ( s ) Neil Young David Briggs After the Gold Rush track listing `` Tell Me Why '' ( 1 ) `` After the Gold Rush '' ( 2 ) `` Only Love Can Break Your Heart '' ( 3 ) `` After the Gold Rush '' is a song written, composed, and performed by Neil Young and is the title song from the 1970 album of the same name. In addition to After the Gold Rush, it also appears on Decade, Greatest Hits, and Live Rust. The song consists of three verses, two of which describe dream visions involving Mother Nature. The three verses move forward in time from the past ( a medieval celebration with the sun floating on the breeze ), to the present ( the singer lying, distressed, in bed with the full moon in his eyes when there is a nuclear bomb explosion ie sunburst ), and, finally, the future ( spaceships transporting the chosen ones to a new home in the sun ). The theme of the sun links all three verses. On the original recording, in addition to Young 's vocals, two instruments are used in the song : a piano and a french horn. The french horn solo in the middle of the song is often replaced by a harmonica solo by Young in live performances. The line `` Look at Mother Nature on the run / In the 1970s '' has been amended by Young in concert over the decades and is currently sung as `` Look at Mother Nature on the run / in the 21st century. '' Cover versions The song has been covered numerous times. In 1973, it was interpreted by Prelude, whose a capella version was a top 40 hit all over the globe, especially the United Kingdom where it re-charted in the Top 40 in 1982. Other versions have been performed by artists such as Thom Yorke, k.d. lang, The Flaming Lips, The King 's Singers, Michael Hedges, Nena, and Natalie Merchant. Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris included it on their smash Trio II album in 1999 and were awarded a Grammy for their version. ( Parton also released a solo version of the song in 1996, though her version altered the line `` I felt like getting high '' to `` I felt like I could cry '' with the permission of Neil Young. ) During Radiohead 's 2003 and 2012 world tours, Thom Yorke occasionally played this song solo, usually segueing into `` Everything in Its Right Place. '' Patti Smith included it on her 2012 album, Banga. The song has also been covered in live shows by Tori Amos, Dave Matthews, Neil Finn during Crowded House 's 2007 tour of the United States, and by Nana Mouskouri during her 1970s BBC show. Dolly Parton once commented about the making of her version of the song : `` When we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what it meant, and they did n't know. So we called Neil Young, and he did n't know. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, ' Hell, I do n't know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I 'd taken. ' '' The Trio version of the song was also released as a single, and while it received modest radio airplay, a video accompanying the song was very popular on a number of cable video outlets, including CMT.In 2017 The Detroits'Seatbelts ' cover was made into a video by Torontos ' Greasy King. References Jump up ^ Sally K. Slocum ( 1992 ), Popular Arthurian traditions, p. 105 Jump up ^ `` Trio II - The Songs ''. Emmylou.net. Retrieved 31 May 2015. Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZlUSID6ss After the Gold Rush lyrics at Dolly Parton On - Line Discussion thread on the meaning of the lyrics to `` After the Gold Rush '' at Thrasher 's Wheat ( 1 ) Crazy Horse The Stray Gators Promise of the Real Neil Young Studio albums Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest On the Beach Tonight 's the Night Zuma American Stars ' n Bars Comes a Time Hawks & Doves Re ac tor Trans Everybody 's Rockin ' Old Ways Landing on Water Life This Note 's for You Freedom Ragged Glory Harvest Moon Sleeps with Angels Mirror Ball Broken Arrow Silver & Gold Are You Passionate ? 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Question: who had a hit with after the gold rush
Answer: Neil Young