HEART OF GOLD - NEIL YOUNG - 1972

HEART OF GOLD – Neil Young

#1 – March 18th, 1972

NEWS

• Nixon was re-elected as President
• Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate.
• The first cellular phone call was made in New York City.
• Munich Massacre takes place in the Olympic compound during the summer Olympics.
• George Wallace is shot.
• The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “The Godfather” “Deliverance” along with “Deep Throat”
• T.V.: “MASH” “Kung-Fu” and “Emergency”
• The program code for “E-Mail” was written.
• Bobby Fisher becomes a Chess Champ.
• Pink Floyd releases “Dark Side of the Moon”
• The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). 
• The first convention of Star Trek fans is held in New York's Statler-Hilton hotel.

#1@1

• He played with Rick James & the Mynah Birds, and with Stephen Stills in Buffalo Springfield and with Crosby, Stills & Nash for the first time at Woodstock.
• Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
• It features the back-up vocals of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
• He would go to the #1 spot solo for the first time.
• Neil Young and “Heart of Gold” your #1 @ 1 from March 1972.