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LOS ANGELES — Neil Young has been named the 2010 MusiCares person of the year.
Neil Portnow, president of the MusiCares Foundation and the Recording Academy, named the 63-year-old Young on Tuesday as the honoree for his “standard of artistic integrity and iconoclastic creativity for more than four decades.”
Young will be saluted at a dinner and concert in Los Angeles on Jan. 29, two days before the 52nd annual Grammys. The event marks the music-industry charity’s 20th person-of-the-year tribute.
Young’s many hits include 1972’s “Heart of Gold” and 1989’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” The Associated Press
