Neil Young’s 1975 album *Tonight’s the Night* is presented as his most emotionally exposed and personal record, shaped by the deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry from heroin overdoses. Rather than concealing his grief behind polished production, Young allowed the album’s performances to sound raw, exhausted and unstable, making it an unusually direct expression of loss.

Recorded late at night with Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Ben Keith and Nils Lofgren at Studio Instrument Rentals, the sessions prioritised feeling and spontaneity over studio perfection. Young described the album as an “OD letter” about “life, dope and death”, saying he felt it more deeply than anything else he had made; some tracks also contain contributions recorded by Whitten shortly before his death.