SINGER-SONGWRITER NEIL YOUNG ON SINGER - SONGWRITER FRED NEIL

pages 199 and 200 from Neil Young's recent music memoir

The Grove in Coconut Grove Florida.

"The Grove was intoxicating, and I stayed there on and off for years.  I had a suite in  a local hotel called the Rangoon.  There were a lot of high rollers in and out of the hotel all the time.  Fred Neil, the great folksinger/songwriter who wrote "Everybody's Talkin." which ws eventually used in the movie Midnight Cowboy, was there hanging out at the dock a lot with some of his friends.  (It is ironic to me that someone as seminal and influential as Freddy Neil would become more known for a movie song than the influence he had on a generation of musicians, including Stephen Stills, but that's the way it goes.)