Neil Young: Sleeps With Angels
Gavin Martin, NME, 13 August 1994
PETE TOWNSHEND got it right when he said, "Neil Young? Neil's the leader – the rest of us just follow him." Young may have started life like any other rocker but his weird and wondrous career, and his zeitgeist grasp of sound and song, has long since seen him outstrip those influences.
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