Tonight's the Night: Play It Loud and Stay in the Other Room!
Bud Scoppa, NME, 28 June 1975
NEIL YOUNG isn't out to win any popularity contest. 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 from scratch.
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