Photo: Olympics Soundcheck of Neil Young

UPDATE 2/28/10: Neil Young News: It is Official! Neil Young Will Play Olympics Closing Ceremonies


Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young
(or is it Neil Young channeling Jimmy Fallon?)
Comedian Jimmy Fallon performs at the Whistler victory ceremony at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada on February 25, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

Punk'd!

Yep. We done been punk'd.

All week long there have been rumors floating around about how Neil Young will play at the Olympics' closing ceremonies. Neil will duet with Ontario Alberta's Joni Mitchell. A Canadian all-star musical tribute with Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Randy Bachman, Cowboy Junkies, Celine Dion and Neil Young. Yikes.

Crazy, made-up, baseless conjecture, outrageous speculation, nonsense stuff. All over the internets tubes.

Then, along came the rumored Neil sightings in Vancouver. And then photos surfaced.

Well, it seems that comedian Jimmy Fallon is in Vancouver doing his Neil Young impression and that has caused quite a bit of confusion, to say the least.

In the ever expanding bizzarro world where Jimmy Fallon's impression of Neil Young goes massively viral and Neil Young does impressions of Jimmy Fallon performing American Idol's "Pants On The Ground", no one seems to be able to keep track of who is who doing what.

Then you have Will Ferrell channeling Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant channeling Neil Young via Blue Oyster Cult, and we just don't know where the shark jumping begins and ends anymore.

Seriously.

Now why in the world would Neil Young play "Heart of Gold" at the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada -- of all places -- they asked rhetorically? C'mon now. Don't you think "After the Gold Rush" would be a better anthem?

Oh, Canada.

So let's just stop all the speculation, rumors, dis-info once and for all. We will not tolerate it here @ TW. We have standards higher than TMZ. (Of course, that's not saying much). And that's the last word on this subject. Period.

In the immortal words of Pete Townshend, "We won't get punk'd again."

I'm a dreamin' man, guess that's my problem.



UPDATE 2/28/10: Neil Young News: It is Official! Neil Young Will Play Olympics Closing Ceremonies