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====2005 health issues==== In March 2005, while working on the ''[[Prairie Wind]]'' album in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]],<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1110988,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051210222145/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1110988,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 10, 2005 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |title=Resurrection of Neil Young, Continued |date=September 28, 2005 |access-date=May 20, 2010}}</ref> Young was diagnosed with a brain [[aneurysm]]. He was treated successfully with a minimally invasive [[Neuroradiology|neuroradiological]] procedure and performed in a New York hospital on March 29,<ref>{{cite news|title=Neil Young Treated for 'Dangerous' Aneurysm|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/01/neil.young/|work=CNN|date=April 1, 2005|access-date=March 31, 2009}}</ref> but passed out two days later on a New York street from bleeding from the [[femoral artery]], which radiologists had used to access the aneurysm.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Resurrection of Neil Young|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109363,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130091826/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109363,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 30, 2005|magazine=Time|date=September 26, 2005|access-date=March 31, 2009}}</ref> The complication forced Young to cancel his scheduled appearance at the [[Juno Awards]] telecast in Winnipeg, but within months he was back on stage, appearing at the close of the [[Live 8]] concert in [[Barrie, Ontario]], on July 2. During the performance, he debuted a new song, a soft hymn called "When God Made Me". Young's brush with death influenced ''Prairie Wind''{{'}}s themes of retrospection and mortality.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Prairie Wind Music Review|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/albums/album/7637213/review/7645148/prairie_wind|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002044614/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/albums/album/7637213/review/7645148/prairie_wind|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 2, 2007|magazine=Rollingtone|date=October 6, 2005|access-date=March 31, 2009}}</ref>
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