Neil Young Plays “This Note’s For You” For The First Time in 28 Years

When Neil Young wrote and recorded his song “This Note’s For You” in 1988, the song was intended as a protest against corporate colonization of rock ‘n’ roll. At the time, Young’s peers were just starting to license their tracks out for things like beer commercials, and Young thought that was gross. The song’s title was a play on Budweiser’s “This Bud’s For You” ad slogan. Its video mocked the music-video and beer-commercial aesthetics of the day, and it won the VMA for Video Of The Year after MTV initially banned it. On Sunday night, Neil Young played “This Note’s For You” live for the first time since 1997.