FILE - In this May 25, 2019, file photo, Neil Young performs at the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival at Napa Valley Expo in Napa, Calif. Young has become the latest artist to strike gold with his song catalog.
(Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK ā Neil Young has become the latest musician to strike gold with his song catalogue, selling a 50 percent stake in his music to a British investment company in a deal announced on Wednesday.
Merck Mercuriadis, founder of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, said that he bought his first Neil Young album when he was seven years old.
āNeil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend .
In the song, Young sang: āAin't singin' for Pepsi, ain't singin' for Coke.