Broken Arrow Magazine was the quarterly journal of the Neil Young Appreciation Society. The NYAS was founded in London in 1981 to bring together Neil's fans worldwide and to distribute news about all things related to the great man. It's hard to believe now just how little information was available in these distant pre-internet days, especially if you didn't live in the USA. In the late Seventies/early Eighties it was possible to go from album release to album release and receive little or no news about Neil Young other than album reviews. This was especially so in the years of little touring in the period from 1979 to 1981, when the NYAS and BrokenArrow magazine were conceived.

The NYAS set out to rectify this lack of information with a subscription based society whose mainstay was to be a quarterly magazine that was intended to be by fans for fans. The first issue came out in August 1981 with a print run of 150 magazines and a membership that had reached in excess of 100 hardy subscribers who were willing to take a gamble on the new enterprise. Their gamble paid off as the NYAS not only survived but went from strength to strength and in the following 33 years produced a total of 134 magazines.

Those magazines represent a random treasure trove of Neil Young information and represent a formidable archive of the life and music of Neil and related musicians. They are now freely available here for the first time to the public at large. I hope you enjoy browsing through these voluminous files and dipping in and out of more than 50 years of Neil Young history.