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  1. Neil Young night on BBC Four from 9:30pm

    9:30 - Neil Young In Concert:

    Footage of the singer-songwriter from 1971, featuring songs that were eventually to feature on Young's classic album Harvest, including Heart of Gold, A Man Needs a Maid and Old Man.

    10:00 - Neil Young - Don't Be Denied:

    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.

    11:00 - Deja Vu:

    In 2006, the Iraq War was the flashpoint of the upcoming US election, a subject which divided the country. 1960s supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who campaigned against the Vietnam War, hit the road again to bring their anti war message to a new generation.

  2. stunning band. first two albums are crackers and parts of 'no. 4' are great too

    saw them touring their last album at the barras and they were ace

    glad they have reformed cause i couldn't stand scott weiland (one of my fave frontmen) being in velvet revolver any longer. they are/were a simply terrible band

  3. its an exceptional read! as long as you dont mind a bit of (casual) racism in the stories he tells its all good. and nah if i mixed with casuals id do it with a bit more dignity than dyer ever does :up:

    and if any of you aint seen it go look up real football factories international - poland

    youtube has the whole thing up. i was kinda hoping he would get a good kick in for that one!

  4. I thought it was Atalanta? Verona are an interesting lot though. You seen the photos of the ASC flag in amongst all the fascist ones at Bentegodi? :laughing:

    EDIT:

    YouTube - Scooter @ San Siro

    Mintal.

    quality vid that one :p btw it is atalanta

    and i may know who was responsible for that asc flag being in with the verona lot :up: quality stuff! you ever read a season with veron by tim parks?

  5. Also, if I remember right, one of the Inter fans involved in that was the same guy who soon after lobbed a scooter from the top tier of the Curva Nord onto some unfortunate away fans. And still hasn't been banned from the ground :laughing:

    the vid of that is amazing! genuis stuff!

    think it might have been verona or lazio fans who had all travelled to milan on their scooters for the game

    and with regards of the rangers game ive shifted from my usual seat to the south. want to see more of the game this time and atmosphere in south should be top notch for it. hopefully a tasty game. anyone who says we have nothing to play for must be joking! stopping the current buns winning the title at our home should be enough motivation esp for zander and maguire

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