Rust Never Sleeps Concert Neil Young Opening song - who else saw this concert live? Philly Spectrum 1978 Check out the ticket price-$8.00 “Sugar Mountain” is a song by Canadian folk rock singer and composer Neil Young. Young composed the song on November 12, 1964—his 19th birthday—at the Victoria Hotel in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), where he had been touring with his Winnipeg band the Squires. Its lyrics are reminiscences about his youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba. #neilyoung #sugarmount