"It's not what we thought we were gonna be doing, a lot of the people's civil rights have been compromised, and we don't know what's going on. If I keep speaking my mind, will I be deported? I'm not very happy with the state of things. Music is being banned, and we have people in control of the radio stations who are the same people in control of the concert halls. They're also tied into the [US] administration and are sponsoring pro-war rallies. It's not good. It's interesting ."

Neil Young interview, Guardian UK May 22

Guardian UK review of Shakey, biography of Neil Young by Jimmy McDonough

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review in pitchfork

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as David Bowie says at one point: "There's youthful redemption in everything he does, a joyfulness about being an independent thinker in America." While no less a misanthrope than Randy Newman adds, "Most people did their best work when they were younger. Neil Young is as good as he ever was, which is quite an accomplishment ... It seems like there's no tricks to him. I don't know if you could name anybody better who came out of rock and roll."

review in Salon

{the Loner, Four Dead in Ohio,the FBI must have seethed, at least the lower echelons, I always figured it was him that put that Cordwainer Smith link on the Buffalo Springfield liner notes. and then when Cinnamon Girl and Down By The River came along, that was also my first headphone trip, you could see it all laid out ahead, that part of it, the valid darkness of real night, with its stars and its sleeping children and its dreams and its lovers and its moonlight and its way late crazy shit on toward dawn. so much gets lost on the way to the auditorium, someone standing in the wings says something then the lights go down, it's hard to remember later, and for me, things got extra confused. but that's ok, I've remembered enough to know all I need to now. it's nobody's business, it's everybody's story, he looks like Kate Jackson early on, like Alfalpha, and sounds like my great-grandmother. sometimes it feels like any true thing I ever did got done because I had the room to do it, because he was over there doing what he did.}