Harvest - Neil Young Reviews

After three critically well received albums for Reprise, along came 1972's Harvest. This is the album that altered Neil Young's position in the music world to an unimaginable degree. Harvest reached number one on both sides of the Atlantic and produced a radio staple and chart topping single in Heart of Gold. Young moved into a new ...

The year was 1972. I was 9. My dad was a music nut. I knew all the Beatles albums, all the Stones. I learnt the lyrics to Sgt Pepper almost as soon as I could read. But this night he was playing something different on our gramophone (one of those that looked like a sideboard, that you could stack half a dozen LPs or singles on and it would - when ...

Neil Young: writer of songs, scarer of children (both with his voice and his head, really) and maker of some of the best folk\rock songs ever. Harvest is full of these songs, and is my personal favourite of Neil Young's albums. I have a lot of respect for Neil Young, mostly because of his attempts to piss off his record company by ...