Fred Neil

Reclusive, mysterious, and extravagantly gifted, Fred Neil was a pivotal figure in the transition from folk-singer to singer/songwriter. Little is known for certain about his early years, though myth places him in Memphis with the Sun gang and in Clovis, New Mexico, with Buddy Holly (who recorded one of his songs). Neil was known to have haunted the halls of the Brill Building in the '50s, where h...