“Canadian journalist and author Scott Young, who was also father of Canadian rock star Neil Young,” has died at the age of 87. As a CBC News wire story notes, Young was a war correspondent during World War II and later became a popular sports columnist for Globe & Mail. But he also “enjoyed wide success as a novelist, short-story writer and popular historian,” publishing some 40 books, including Neil and Me, about his relationship with his famous son. About that relationship, the CBC report notes, “It is said that Neil Young’s first musical abilities were encouraged when his father gave him a ukulele for Christmas in 1958.”