Chrome Dreams performer Neil Young
Album history
According to Jimmy McDonough's Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Chrome Dreams was first compiled onto an acetate in 1977. A copy of the acetate was subsequently copied and widely circulated by bootleggers in the 1990s.   The album takes its name from a sketch David Briggs made on a studio tape reel. Young is quoted as saying "What Chrome Dreams really was, was a sketch that [David] Briggs drew of a grille and front of a '55 Chrysler, and if you turned it on its end, it was this beautiful chick...I called it Chrome Dreams."Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis opined that the album "could have been Young's strongest album of the 70s".On October 23, 2007, Neil Young released a new album entitled Chrome Dreams II.On June 30, 2023, Young announced that he would finally be releasing Chrome Dreams.