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‘I don’t care if it’s out of tune’: Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night in the age of machines

SOURCES


— ‘I always think of being five… radio up to my ear.’ Kent, Nick, ‘I BUILD SOMETHING UP, I TEAR IT RIGHT DOWN’, MOJO Magazine, December 1995

— Reflecting on the vogue for highly produced records in the 1970s… you do another one.’ Page 414, 415, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— For Neil Young the key lay in recording everything he did… “Jesus, we recorded that.”’ Page 414, 415, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— The recording sessions… became the control room. Page 411, 412, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— ‘The mood was hangin’ in the air,’ said Lofgren… They looked like little rodents when you shine a light in their eyes.’ Page 413, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— ‘We’d get really high,’ Neil Young told… We were wide open … just wide open ….’ Page 412, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— Nils Lofgren struggled with the extreme… freaked us all out.’ Page 414, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— ‘I don’t care if it’s out of tune… the bottom of the ’t.’’. Page 413, McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

— In a glowing review in Rolling Stone… its ragged edge of desolation.’ Marsh, Dave, ‘Tonight’s the Night’, Rolling Stone magazine, 28 August 1975: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/tonights-the-night-2-98967/

BIBLIOGRAPHY


McDonough, Jimmy, ‘Shakey: Neil Young's Biography’ (Vintage, 2003)

Young, Neil, ‘Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream’ (Viking 2012)

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