Neil Young has announced a 50th anniversary re-release for his 1975 album ‘Tonight’s The Night’.
The limited-edition reissue will contain the full album alongside six bonus tracks, made up of unreleased alternate versions of songs from the era and a collaboration with Joni Mitchell.
The album will include a version of ‘Lookout Joe’ that was recorded at S.I.R. Studio in Los Angeles in 1973 in place of the original and a new take on the record’s title track. Also included are unreleased versions of ‘Walk On’, ‘Everybody’s Alone’ and ‘Speakin’ Out’, an early version of ‘Wonderin’’ and a collaborative version of Mitchell’s ‘Raised On Robbery’.
The reissue will be released on 2LP, clear 2LP and CD versions on November 28 and you can pre-order your copy here.
‘Tonight’s The Night’ was Young’s sixth studio album, released in June 1975. It had been recorded two years earlier but label Reprise delayed its release, reportedly due to the bleakness of the subject matter and its rough sound.
Young wrote the songs while grieving the deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and his friend Bruce Berry, and it formed the third part of his ‘Ditch Trilogy’ (after ‘Time Fades Away’ and ‘On The Beach’), recorded during Young’s deliberate retreat from fame after the success of 1972’s ‘Harvest’.
‘Tonight’s the Night’ 50th anniversary edition tracklist:
- ‘Tonight’s The Night’
- ‘Speakin’ Out’
- ‘World On A String’
- ‘Borrowed Tune’
- ‘Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown’
- ‘Mellow My Mind’
- ‘Roll Another Number (For The Road)’
- ‘Albuquerque’
- ‘New Mama’
- ‘Lookout Joe [New 1973 version]’
- ‘Tired Eyes’
- ‘Tonight’s The Night (part II)’
Bonus tracks (from original sessions at S.I.R. Studio):
- ‘Walk On’
- ‘Wonderin’’
- ‘Everybody’s Alone’
- ‘Raised On Robbery’ [feat. Joni Mitchell]
- ‘Speakin’ Out Jam’
- ‘Tonight’s The Night (take 3)’
Elsewhere, Young recently announced he was removing his music from Amazon Music. “The time is here. FORGET AMAZON,” he wrote. “Soon my music will not be there. It is easy to buy local. Support your community. Go to the local store. Don’t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America.”
He also deactivated his Facebook and Instagram accounts over Meta’s reported “unconscionable use of chatbots with children” earlier this year.
Earlier this summer, Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts headlined Glastonbury 2025 and in a four-star review, NME described the performance as “a headline set that proves that sometimes, there’s still power to be found in an old-school approach”.
“It is, in short, the definition of no frills,” it read. “It’s testament to the power of Young’s songwriting, then, just how brilliantly it all works, how little the momentum drops.”
Young released his first studio album with the Chrome Hearts, ‘Talkin To The Trees’, in June, and shared the anti-Trump song ‘Big Crime’ last month.
