Neil Young plays anti-corporate track 'This Note’s For You' for the first time since 1997

Neil Young plays anti-corporate track 'This Note’s For You' for the first time since 1997

Neil Young performs on the Pyramid stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 (Photo by Jim Dyson/Redferns) Neil Young famously blasted corporate sponsorship invading rock and roll in the 1988 song “This Note’s For You,” and it appears that he’s still not happy about it. During his show Sunday night, he performed the song during his encore, which according to setlist.fm marked the first time he’s p…

Watch Neil Young Play His Anti-Corporate Screed ‘This Note’s For You’ For First Time in 28 Years

Neil Young performed at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage on Sunday night, and he kicked off the encore by mocking the venue’s corporate name with his 1988 screed “This Note’s For You.” It was the first time he played the song since 1997 in any concert setting. Young wrote “This Note’s For You” at a time when everybody from Eric Clapton and Madonna to the Rolling Stones and Genesis were licensing their songs to commercials, appearing in the ads themse…

Neil Young plays anti-corporate track ‘This Note’s For You’ for the first time since 1997 – 106.5 The Arch

Neil Young famously blasted corporate sponsorship invading rock and roll in the 1988 song "This Note’s For You," and it appears that he’s still not happy about it.During his show… Source

Neil Young plays anti-corporate track ‘This Note’s For You’ for the first time since 1997 – KSHE 95

Neil Young famously blasted corporate sponsorship invading rock and roll in the 1988 song "This Note’s For You," and it appears that he’s still not happy about it.During his show… Source

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 da…