{"id":29039,"date":"2024-03-18T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-18-1972-neil-young-lands-his-first-and-only-1-with-heart-of-gold\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:02:58","slug":"on-this-day-march-18-1972-neil-young-lands-his-first-and-only-1-with-heart-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-18-1972-neil-young-lands-his-first-and-only-1-with-heart-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 18, 1972: Neil Young lands his first and only #1 with \u201cHeart of Gold\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-18\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, March 18, 1972\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Neil Young<\/strong> topped the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> singles chart with \u201cHeart of Gold,\u201d his first, and to this day, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">only<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> solo #1 single.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The track featured backup vocals from <strong>Linda Ronstadt<\/strong> and <strong>James Taylor<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHeart of Gold\u201d was featured on Neil\u2019s fourth studio album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Harvest<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which spent two weeks on top the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Album chart, and was<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;s top album of 1972. It also included the hit single \u201cOld Man,\u201d which was a top 40 hit for Neil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Young is due to head out on the Love Earth Tour with his band <strong>Crazy Horse<\/strong> this year. The 15-city tour is set to kick off with two nights in San Diego, April 24 and 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 18, 1972\u2026 Neil Young topped the Billboard singles chart with \u201cHeart of Gold,\u201d his first, and to this day, only solo #1 single.\u00a0 The track featured backup vocals from Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. \u201cHeart of Gold\u201d was featured on Neil\u2019s fourth studio album Harvest, which<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-18-1972-neil-young-lands-his-first-and-only-1-with-heart-of-gold\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}