Neil Young: Blue Notes for a Restless Loner
Dave Zimmer, BAM, 22 April 1988
THE ROBERT De Niro of rock 'n' roll, Neil Young has continually transformed himself throughout his career and inhabited musical characters in much the same manner that De Niro became a brooding taxi driver, menacing Mafioso and raging prize fighter.
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