Phelps turne the Desoto around and headed back to Neil's in a haze. "I remember walkin' in the door to Neil's house - the sun was coming up - and there was Neil, all alone, over in the corner of the room playing the keyboard. It was just insane - he was just playin' away like Beethoven. He looked like a fuckin'maniac".
Ironically, "Heart of Gold" would be bumped from the charts by a clone - America's moronic "Horse with no name". Young even received a congratulatory phone call from his father, who heard the record on the radio and assumed it was his son.