Neil Young, the most productive of those left of the seventies counterculture, explores his own work on “Before and After”.
“They all sound the same. It’s all just a song.” With these sentences before the first crashing guitar chord, Neil Young begins his legendary live album “Year of the Horse” in 1997. The second of these sentences, “it’s all one song”, has since taken on a life of its own; it is emblazoned across countless record reviews, found as a quote in essays and as a chapter heading in biographies. Rightly so.
