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Neil Young: Oh But I Was So Much Older Then...

Mark Cooper, Q, September 1995

...he's younger than that now. Neil Young's new album, Mirror Ball, is a scintillating trans-guitar-generational collaboration with hip young gunslingers Pearl Jam, and has given him yet another lease of songwriting life. What's more, as he approaches his 50th birthday, he's feeling 15 years younger. "I had to work on it," he tells Mark Cooper.

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