Neil Young shares video of him performing ‘Silver and Gold’ for the first time in almost 20 years

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Neil Young has shared a video of him performing ‘Silver and Gold’ for the first time in almost two decades.The track was released in 2000 on his album of the same name, but written in 1981.

Since then, it’s rarely been performed live, with the last time he sang it to an audience being in 2007.Following ‘Silver and Gold”s release in 2000, Young explained the process of writing the song to KGSR Radio. “I tried it several ways.

And it was such a nice, it’s just such a song, you know. It just kind of lives with the guitar. It’s just there,” he said.He went on to say: “I really recorded, I think, a total of 11 times with different people in all kinds of different configurations.

And we got ’em all, none of them are worth listening to. But this one here finally just got back to the roots of it and just sat down with my guitar and played it and said, ‘That’s it.’ Because I love the song and I feel the song now and it means something to me now.”The video, which was shared yesterday (December 25), shows Young playing guitar and softly singing while sitting by a fire.