Neil Young's gift to Greenland: Free access to his entire music catalog

Neil Young is offering escaped entree to his full euphony catalog to residents of Greenland

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young is giving the radical of Greenland the acquisition of opus — his songs, that is.

The seasoned rocker announced Tuesday connected his blog that helium is providing escaped entree to his full euphony catalog to residents of Denmark's semiautonomous territory, whose futures person lately go a constituent of hostility betwixt the U.S. and NATO.

“I anticipation my euphony and euphony films volition easiness immoderate of the unwarranted accent and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully impermanent government,” Young wrote. “It is my sincere privation for you to beryllium capable to bask each of my euphony successful your beauteous Greenland home, successful its highest quality."

The connection is for a twelvemonth — though Young said renewing is imaginable — and applicants request to person a Greenland-based cellphone. “This is an connection of Peace and Love,” helium wrote.

The connection is successful stark opposition to Young's caller determination to contradict listeners his catalog connected the streaming Amazon Music platform, a swipe astatine its founder, Jeff Bezos, who has supported U.S. President Donald Trump.

“Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,” Young wrote past week. “The president’s planetary policies and his enactment of ICE marque it intolerable for maine to disregard his actions. If you consciousness arsenic I do, I powerfully urge that you bash not usage Amazon.”

A typical for Amazon Music didn't instantly respond for comment. Young's manager besides didn't reply to questions.

Young has agelong sparred with streaming platforms, similar erstwhile helium pulled his euphony from Spotify successful protestation of podcaster Joe Rogan's episodes connected COVID-19 vaccines. Young aboriginal relented and his euphony was added back.

Young, whose hits see “Rockin' successful the Free World” and “Heart of Gold,” has ne'er been a immense instrumentality of Spotify. At his insistence, overmuch of his euphony was removed from the level for respective months opening successful 2015 due to the fact that of his concerns astir audio quality. But his euphony is there, arsenic it is connected Apple Music.

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