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''Freedom'' is a studio album album by Neil Young released in 1989.

''Freedom'' relaunched Neil Young's career, after a mostly unsuccessful decade. After many arguments (and a lawsuit), Young left Geffen Records and returned to his original label, Reprise, in 1988 with ''This Note's for You''. ''Freedom'', however, brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album in the mold of his 1979 classic album, ''Rust Never Sleeps''. Both albums consist of live songs with the audience track mainly removed. ''Freedom'' also contains one song, "Rockin' in the Free World", bookending the album in acoustic and electric variants, a stylistic choice previously featured on ''Rust Never Sleeps''. "Rockin' in the Free World", despite lyrics critical of the then-new George H. W. Bush administration ("we got a thousand points of light"; "kinder, gentler machine gun hand"), became the ''de facto'' anthem of the collapse of "communism" (specifically the Fall of the Berlin Wall which occurred a month into the album's release) because of its repeated chorus of 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World'.

An edited cut of the electric version of "Rockin' in The Free World" was also used over the final credits of Michael Moore's film ''Fahrenheit 9/11,'' and the song was rereleased as a single at the time of the film's release.

Stylistically the album was one of Young's most diverse records, ranging from acoustic love songs to raging rockers. Three of the songs on ''Freedom'' ("Don't Cry," "Eldorado" and "On Broadway") had previously been released on the Japan and Australia-only EP ''Eldorado'', and in a way represented Young's reaction to the Grunge movement, featuring heavy waves of thundering distortion and feedback (often strangely juxtaposed with quieter sections). Two songs featured a brass section, an unusual stylistic departure for Young, but one he had embraced fully on his previous album ''This Note's For You''. - Wikipedia