This Note's for You

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This Note's For You

Studio album by Neil Young & The Blue Notes
Released	April 1988
Recorded	November 1987 - January 1988
Genre	Rock
Length	39:25
Label	Reprise
Producer(s)	Neil Young, Niko Bolas
All Music Guide [1]
Neil Young chronology
Life (1987)	This Note's For You (1988)	Eldorado (EP) (1989)

This Note's for You is an album originally credited to Neil Young and the Blue Notes, released in 1988. Most of the album's concept centered around the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular (the title track is a social commentary on concert sponsorship). The music is marked by the use of a horn section.

The video for the title track famously included a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising and Michael Jackson in particular. It was initially banned by MTV (although the Canadian music channel, MuchMusic ran it immediately) before being put into heavy rotation and finally given the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year for 1989.

Since Harold Melvin, founder of the R&B group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, took legal action against Young over use of the "Blue Notes" name, the album is now credited as a Neil Young solo recording. The backup band Young used for this album was renamed "Ten Men Workin'" (after the album's lead-off song).

The cover of this album is reportedly a photo taken in the back lane of the 200 block of Main Street Winnipeg, which housed the Blue Note Cafe. Neil was known to play unannounced in the Blue Note Cafe while in Winnipeg.^{[citation needed]}