Neil Young - Everybody's Rockin'

This month (on July 27th), we marked the thirtieth anniversary of Everybody’s Rockin’, the thirteenth studio album from Neil Young.

He was accompanied by the Shocking Pinks, who shared co-billing on the album. This one-off group consisted of Larry Byrom (piano and backing vocals), Anthony Crawford (backing vocals), Tim Drummond (upright bass), Karl Himmel (snare drum), Ben Keith (saxophone and lead guitar) and Rick Palombi (backing vocals). The 1983 release charted at number 50 in the UK, number 46 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 30 in Australia, number 22 in Canada, number 21 in New Zealand, and number 15 in Sweden.

Neil Young - Trans

Today (December 29th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Trans, the twelfth studio album from Canadian rocker Neil Young. This 192 release went to number 29 in the UK, number 23 in Australia, number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 10 in Canada, number 8 in New Zealand and number 6 in Sweden.

Young played guitar, bass and piano as well as did the lead vocals. On a bulk of the tracks, he also used a Vocoder to give his voice a more electronic sound. Joining him on the album were Nils Lofgren (guitar, piano, organ), Ben Keith (guitar), Bruce Palmer (bass), Ralph Molina (drums), Joe Lala (percussion), Frank Sampedro (guitar) and Billy Talbot (bass).