![]() ![]() It’s an album that deals with love of all stripes, chronicling his budding romance with Snodgress, his affection for his ranch hand Louis Avila, his sad regret over Danny Whitten’s dependence on heroin, his own search for self-love. ![]() But to be completely accurate, while it was released on February 14, 1972, the album was much more than a valentine to Carrie Snodgress. Halfway thorough his solo tour, Young decided to separate the two songs, and began to play them on guitar, cutting one single line: ‘ Afraid/A man is afraid’ when the two songs became standalones. Within the month he had already written A Man Needs A Maid and Heart Of Gold, playing them on piano as one conjoined piece for the first time on January 10, 1971, at the University of Oregon and then again at Toronto’s Massey Hall, the performance that’s captured on the Live At Massey Hall 1971 CD. But not before he began sketching out ideas for a suite of songs inspired by Snodgress. I got lost going home,” Snodgress told Young biographer Jimmy McDonough.Īs for Neil, he fell in love with the actress, arranging for a second date before the evening was over, then checking himself into a hospital the next morning for the excruciating back pain that would require surgery just eight months later. I got about halfway home and had to pull over and go to sleep. “That Panama Red! Jesus, that was strong pot. This might help to explain their relationship, being that it truly was founded on his illusion of her on the big screen, and perhaps the pills that he was taking to alleviate the pain of his debilitating back injury. ![]() John Frusciante lived there after ghosts told him to quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and several of the members of Led Zeppelin rode their motorcycles through the lobby to the sound of cheering guests.īut it wasn’t the quaintly appointed lobby, the high tea or the exalted guests – after all, Snodgress was a two-time Golden Globe winner and an Academy Award nominee – or even the fact that Young was wearing a neck brace and confined to a hospital bed that the late actress recalled. That fateful first date took place in Young’s room at the Chateau Marmont, one of Hollywood’s more infamous hotels, as renowned for its posh European hospitality as for the rollcall of long-time residents like Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves. After her roommate filled her in, Snodgress called Young and arranged to meet him the next month. The ironic thing was that she didn’t even know who Young was, which certainly had to be of no small appeal for the soon-to-be-iconic singer-songwriter. The next day, the Academy Award-nominated actress saw a note on her dressing room table that simply read: “Call Neil Young”. She passed their high scrutiny and they left her a note. Young dispatched Giachetti and his roadie compatriot Bruce Berry to go backstage at the theatre and check her out. As providence would have it – always a big force in Young’s life – Snodgress happened to be performing in a stage production of Rosebloom at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In the darkened theatre, Young was equally taken with the slight, winsome actress with the throaty voice, and upon his return to California he did some fact finding. Carrie Snodgrass in a publicity shot for Diary Of A Housewife (Image credit: Evening Standard / Getty Images) ![]()
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