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''Everybody's Rockin is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on August 1, 1983. The album was recorded with the Shocking Pinks (a band made up just for the occasion), and features a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and original material). Running 25 minutes, it is Young's shortest album. ''Everybody's Rockin is typical of his 1980s period in that it bears little, or no resemblance to the album released before it (''Trans'' (1982), a synth-heavy, electro-rock album), nor the one released after it (''Old Ways'' (1985), which is pure country). ==Background== Having already created tension with his label, Geffen Records, with the previous year's ''Trans'', Young offered the label in 1983 a country album he'd recorded the previous fall called ''Old Ways''.〔Clancy, Chris. "(From the Vault: Neil Young. )" ''Money,'' September 2, 2010.〕 Young's music had previously shown the influence of country music, including his most successful album, ''Harvest'' (1972). Geffen, however, reeling from the commercial and critical failure of ''Trans'', rejected ''Old Ways'' and demanded "a rock & roll album." Young went into the studio and quickly produced an album with a sound reminiscent of the early period of rock & roll, including Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Mystery Train," recorded by Elvis Presley in his early days at Sun Records. Most songs were Young originals, such as "Kinda Fonda Wanda" that had originally been written to amuse his wife.〔 Young wrote the song "Wonderin'" long before the sessions for ''Everybody's Rockin. It dates from at least the ''After the Gold Rush'' era, and was part of his setlist at solo acoustic shows in 1970. According to Young, ''Everybody's Rockin had been intended to be a concept album, with two additional songs, "Get Gone" and "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me," that would have "given a lot more depth to The Shocking Pinks."〔Kent, Nick. "(I BUILD SOMETHING UP, I TEAR IT RIGHT DOWN: Neil Young at 50. )" ''Mojo'', December 1995〕 However, an infuriated Geffen Records cancelled the recording sessions, preventing Young from finishing the album, which they thus released as it was. The two songs later appeared on Young's compilation ''Lucky Thirteen''. Young explained the inspiration for the album in 1995, saying that "there was very little depth to the material obviously. They were all 'surface' songs. But see, there was a time when music was like that, when all pop stars were like that. And it was good music, really good music....Plus it was a way of further destroying what I'd already set up. Without doing that, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing now. If I build something up, I have to systematically tear it right down before people decide, 'Oh that's how we can define him.'"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everybody's Rockin'」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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