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Before I embark on the next stage of this blog, namely posts on concerts I attended with relevant clips, etc, I've taken the opportunity to update the following posts with better quality scans: New Order 1982 Feature Mist 1983 07 23 NME Feature 1983 07 The Face Feature 1984 06 Zigzag Feature 1984 08 23 Radio Times  1985 05 17 Powerhouse Melbourne 1985 11 16 NME Feature 1986 04 12 Sounds Feature 1986 09 06 Sounds Feature 1986 10 04 Melody Maker 1986 10 18 NME Feature 1986 10 Mix Feature 1986 11 The Face Feature 1986 Record Mirror Feature 1987 12 19 NME Feature 1987 12 19 Wembley Arena NME 1988 07 Sky Feature 1988 12 03 Melody Maker 1989 01 07 NME 1989 01 28 "Technique" NME Review 1989 01 28 NME Feature 1989 02 04 NME Feature 1989 04 01 Sounds Feature 1989 07 01 NME Cover Referring to FAC 227 1990 05 NME England Poster 1990 08 04 NME Hacienda 1992 01 Vox Tony Wilson 1993 05 08 Melody Maker 1993 05 Q Feature 1993 05 Q "Republic" Revie

"instant feedback"  Neil Young plus electricity plus us, the ticket-holders. It's been a volatile but vital combination for over three decades. On the eve of the great man's return to the heart of the hurricane with Crazy Horse, he talks exclusively to Sylvie Simmons. Meanwhile, band-members and bystanders over the years recall "the most intense experience" in live rock music. In a misty redwood clearing an hour south of San Francisco, high up on Skyline off of Highway 92, sites the Mountain House Restaurant like a lost Twin Peaks prop. Wood-clad, fireplaced, folksy - fake owl on the mantelpiece, signed hockey-stick on the wall — local boys Neil Young and Crazy Horse once played a seven-hour electric set on the enormous verandah that soars out over a ravine. No use the neighbours complaining; the cops were enjoying the show. Young’s ranch Broken Arrow is a 10-minute drive away — less if any of his cars were under 30 years old—but the Mountain House is where

THIS YOUNG WILL RUN AND RUN LOOKED LIKE WE'D LOST HIM FOR A WHILE BACK THERE, WHAT WITH THOSE RATHER ‘ODD’ ALBUMS AND THOSE CRANKY PRO-REAGAN SPEECHES. BUT NOW GOOD OL’ NEIL YOUNG IS BACK WITH A CRACKING NEW ALBUM AND PLANS FOR A 180-TRACK (!) COMPILATION. NICK KENT CAUGHT UP WITH HIM IN PARIS. NEIL YOUNG’S manager Elliot Roberts told me: “He’s doing interviews now because he’s got things he wants to say. There’s a lot of things going on in the world right now he wants to talk about.” But Neil Young thankfully kept his new supposed “caring humanitarian global” opinions to himself for this interview (“1 ain’t nobody’s ambassador of good will”). He looked awesomely tall, wearing an extraordinary long coat made from a multi-coloured horse-blanket that looked like Young had won it from a Red Indian wino in a card game. On anyone else, the effect would have looked disastrous, on Neil Young it looked ... well exactly how you would expect Neil Young to look. Overtly eccentric and very, v