Neil Young: The Unwilling Superstar
Bud Scoppa, Creem, November 1975
NEIL YOUNG ISN'T out to win any popularity contests. Just as he reached the top of the heap three years ago with the huge-selling Harvest, Young divested himself of the look and the sound of superstardom and began to rework his music and image almost from scratch.
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