After the Goldrush - Prelude / Neil Young (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

After the Goldrush (Prelude, 1974; Neil Young, 1970). Live performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-03-31. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

Neil Young wrote "After the Gold Rush" for his album of the same name and released the album in 1970; however, it was the English folk trio, Prelude, that scored a top 40 hit with the song landing at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 (Whitburn, 2013). The song's lyrics have been a meaning mystery for years. It wasn't until Neil wrote his autobiography that we were given a glimpse of what the lyrics meant. According to Neil (Young, 2012), actor/screenplay writer Dean Stockwell had written a screenplay titled "After the Gold Rush," which was about how the gold rush created California and how California eventually fell into the sea (N. Hasted, loudersound.com, 2016). Neil received a copy of the screenplay and was inspired by it. Neil claimed that the song "is an environmental song . . . I recognize in it now this thread that goes through a lotta my songs that’s this time-travel thing . . . When I look out the window, the first thing that comes to my mind is the way this place looked a hundred years ago” (N. Hasted, loudersound.com, 2016).

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