On The Beach

New UNCUT Magazine Issue With NEIL YOUNG As The Cover Star

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8 January 2024

Despairing and disconsolate, full of personal trauma and wider disillusion with the hippie dream – but all set to beautiful music – NEIL YOUNG ’s 1974 album ON THE BEACH turns 50 this year. To mark this anniversary, key players and eyewitnesses take Uncut inside the album’s loose, out there sessions. Plus a host of fans, acolytes and heads – including Kurt Vile, Margo Price, Alan Sparhawk and more – on their favourite tracks.

Also articles on Shane MacGowan, The Quarrymen, Liam Gallagher/John Squire and more.

Purchase a copy and let it be sent to your door. Info HERE.

HAPPY 75 To The Living Country And Rock Legend NEIL YOUNG!

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12 November 2020

NEIL PERCIVAL YOUNG was born on 12 November 1945 in Toronto, Canada.

Happy 75 to a living legend with the rock ‘n’ roll heart of a young gunslinger.
He released about a thousand albums since 1963. He worked solo, he regularly
recorded with his electrifying pals Crazy Horse and played a couple of years,
a long time ago, with three other memorable voices, Crosby Stills & Nash
and with Buffalo Springfield.

And he’s not finished yet. His Archives seem to be inexhaustible. And if it wasn’t
for the nasty pandemic, he was definitely on a stage somewhere on the planet.

And of course, here at Turn Up The Volume‘s home, it’s also a Neil Young Day.
With three of my favorite albums: Tonight’s The Night (1975), On The Beach (1974)
and Sleeps With Angels (1994)…

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NEIL YOUNG: Bio – Discography

NEIL YOUNG Released Darksome ‘ON THE BEACH’ Album 45 Years Ago…

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15 July 1974

All time legend NEIL YOUNG released ON THE BEACH, his fifth longplayer, 45 years ago, on 16 July 1974. A darksome blues record inspired by troubled times, professionally and personally, for the iconic singer/songwriter. For the fans, like me, one of his most affecting achievements. Human, honest and wholehearted. Cutting songs, gripping vocals. Gloomy masterwork, captivating performances.

The world is turnin’,
I hope it don’t turn away

Rolling Stone said: “For many, many years, On the Beach was Neil Young’s great lost album. The LP didn’t generate a lot of heat when it came out in 1974, and Young didn’t release it on CD until 2003. Its absence from the marketplace turned it into somewhat of a mythical album, and those who dug it up in the pre-Internet days discovered an incredibly depressing album about the perils of fame. The opener ‘Walk On’ confronts Young’s critics, while the creepy ‘Revolution Blues’ is told from the perspective of a Charles Manson-like serial killer. Side two is a more serene affair. ‘Ambulance Blues’ and ‘On the Beach’ are two of the strongest songs Young has ever written, and two of the saddest.”

Album in full…

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NEIL YOUNG: Facebook – All Albums