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NEIL YOUNG Don’t Be Denied, BBC 4 Documentary 2008 DVD

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NEIL YOUNG
Don’t Be Denied, BBC 4 Documentary 2008 DVD


DVD Format: NTSC
Source: Pro-Shot (Multi Camera)
Video Quality: Rating: 9.0
Menus: Yes
Chapter Selection: Yes
Widescreen: Yes
HD: Yes
Total Running Time: 60 Min.


ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY:
Neil Young grants rare and unprecedented access to the BBC for a documentary
in which he traces his musical journey in his own words.
The film was made from three hours of interview shot in New York and California
and utilises previously unseen performance footage from the star’s own extensive archives.
It also features cohorts Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Nils Lofgren and James Taylor.
From his early transcontinental American quest for recognition, through the first flush of
success with Buffalo Springfield to the bi-polar opposites of mega-stardom with Crosby, Stills
and Nash and the soulful rock of Crazy Horse, Young’s career has enjoyed many guises.
Perhaps his most famous period was as a 1970s solo artist making albums that became benchmarks.
After The Goldrush, recorded in his Topanga Canyon home, and Harvest, part-recorded on
his northern Californian ranch, saw Young explore the confessional side of song-writing.
But never one to rest on his laurels, he would continually change direction.
In the mid-Seventies, two of Young’s closest friends died as a result of heroin abuse.
What followed was music’s answer to cinema verite, with Tonight’s The Night a spine-chilling
wake for his dead friends.
As New Wave arrived, Young was keen to explore new ideas. A collaboration with Devo on what
became his art-house epic, Human Highway, saw the genesis of Rust Never Sleeps, a requiem for
the Seventies.
In the Eighties, Young explored different genres, from electronica to country and in recent
times he has returned to Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills and Nash, but only when it has suited him.
The film ends with Young still refusing to be denied, on tour in the USA with CSNY, playing
anti-Bush songs to a Republican audience in the South.