Long May You Run is a studio album credited to the Stills–Young Band, a collaboration between Stephen Stills and Neil Young, released in 1976 on Reprise Records.

Following the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young stadium tour of 1974, an attempt by the quartet to finalize a new album ended amidst acrimony without result.

In early 1976, Stills and Young reached a rapprochement, and began to work on a joint album project from a desire by both to pick up where they left off with their Buffalo Springfield-era guitar explorations, a decade after the inception of the band.

However, on a deadline Nash and Crosby left Miami to finish the sessions for what would become their 1976 album Whistling Down the Wire, and Young and Stills reacted by removing the duo's vocals and other contributions from the master tapes.

The chorus to "Ocean Girl" bears similarity to the Young/Nash collaboration "War Song", a single from 1972 in support of George McGovern.

Unused songs "Traces" and "Human Highway" were also recorded during the sessions, as was "Separate Ways", the lead track on Young's then-unreleased 1975 album Homegrown.

[5] The song was an elegy for Neil Young's first car (which he nicknamed "Mort"[6]), a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse that died in 1962 when its transmission blew in Blind River, Ontario.

Stephen had this majestic mansion with a pool, Greek pillars and a fleet of rental cars, Neil stayed on a funky boat down in Coconut Grove.

The duo were finishing up their album Whistling Down the Wire, but were able to contribute some of their own songs, including "Taken at All" and add background vocals to the material Stills and Young had already completed.

Nash recalls the sessions "flowing beautifully" until he and Crosby took a break to finalize the mixes for their own album, meeting a tight deadline.

"[12]Stills and Young made the decision to excise Crosby and Nash's contributions, and release the album as a duo in order to meet their own deadlines for the upcoming tour.

Nash did not take news well and unleashed a memorable tirade towards Stills and Young: "I think it's his cock he keeps putting in the meat grinder.

"[17] Young would later cite cryptic personal reasons for his departure, namely that he had "voice issues" but he has since stated the tour "wasn't working" and that the "balance was off in some way" as it progressed.

Stills began drinking heavily and started to take out his frustrations on tour personnel thinking they were purposefully making him look bad.