Ten years ago today (January 29th), Neil Young was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year during Grammy Week. The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song “Helpless” on Deja Vu was written by Neil Young and begins with the line “There is a town in North Ontario.” Neil was asked if he’d written it in Canada or was just thinking about Canada when he wrote it, and whether there was anything in particular that had inspired him to write it. Here’s what he had to say.
“A lot of it is about Canada. I think there was a girl named
