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Neil Young performs on stage in Hyde Park on July 12, 2019 in London.
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‘An Offer of Peace and Love’: Neil Young Is Giving Away His Music to Greenlanders
"We do hope other organizations will follow in the spirit of our example," he writes.
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Neil Young is opening the doors of his vault to Greenlanders, for free.
The veteran rocker and environmentalist proves, once more, that he’s rockin’ in the free world by sharing the love with Greenland, an ally which unwittingly finds itself with a massive target on its back, placed there by Donald Trump’s administration.
“I’m honored to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all our friends in Greenland,” writes Young on his website.
“I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” he adds. “It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality. This is an offer of Peace and Love.”
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Young continues, “all the music I have made during the last 62 years is yours to hear. You can renew for free as long as you are in Greenland. We do hope other organizations will follow in the spirit of our example.”
Just how many of Greenland’s 57,000 residents are fans of Neil Young and his vast catalog is unclear, though the message is plain to see: music and art can help in difficult times.
During his second presidency, since 2025, Trump has repeated demands to take control of the territory, by acquisition or by force — a situation that would break international law and turn NATO inside out. Greenland is a self-governing democracy that remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a member state of the European Union.
Young has a long history with Trump, most of it on the side of vocal opposition. On several occasions, the musician — who is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S. — has slammed Trump for playing his music at rallies. In 2020, he called Trump “a disgrace to my country,” and later pointed out that “the U.S. has lost its standing” on the world stage under the President’s leadership.
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Earlier this year, he penned a strongly-worded editorial on his official Neil Young Archives, in which he writes, “Today the USA is a disaster”. And it’s Trump, he added, who “is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes…He has divided us.”
Times sure have changed. Sometime in 2014 or 2015, Young actually met with Trump, prior to his first presidency, to apparently talk funding in the early stages of the artist’s now-defunct Pono digital music venture. If those discussions were at first amicable, they soon descended into a social media beef.
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