At 74, Neil Young will finally become an American citizen: 'We've got a climate emergency'

Neil Young has come up with a canny way to disarm those who have periodically criticized the veteran Canadian singer and songwriter's most pointedly political songs or public statements about life in the USA on the grounds that "he's not even an American."

As of next month, that argument will no longer hold water.

"I've passed all the tests; I've got my appointment, and if everything goes as planned, I'll be taking the oath of citizenship" shortly after turning 74 on Nov. 12. The salient point being, "I'll be able to vote," said Young, who has lived roughly two-thirds of his life in the U.S. since arriving in Los Angeles in the mid-'60s and first making his mark on the rock 'n' roll landscape with Buffalo Springfield.

"I'm still a Canadian; there's nothing that can take that away from me," he said. Young was at a studio in Santa Monica where he and his wife,