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“Heart of Gold” is a song by Neil Young. Released from the 1972 album Harvest, it is so far Young’s only #1 single. Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song, which features backup vocals of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, is one of a series of soft acoustic pieces which were written partly as a result of a back injury. Unable to stand for long periods of time, Young could not play his electric guitar and so returned to his acoustic guitar, which he could play sitting down. “Heart of Gold” was taped during the initial sessions for Harvest in early 1971 at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Ronstadt and Taylor were in Nashville at the time for an appearance on Johnny Cash’s television program, and the album’s... Read on...