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Parisian heights

Charles Spencer

Wednesday, 12th March 2008

Charles Spencer on seeing Neil Young in Paris

Neil Young isn’t the world’s subtlest or most virtuosic electric guitarist, but for sheer passion, power and feeling, he strikes me as unbeatable. As he took his encores first with ‘Cinnamon Girl’, then with ‘Like A Hurricane’, the latter perhaps the greatest song in his magnificent back catalogue, I felt completely blown away by happiness and discovered that tears of joy were running unstoppably down my face.

Charles Spencer is theatre critic of the Daily Telegraph.

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