European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bojoh Swenson United press International Neil Young returns to Rock n Roll to the radio and i heard every Hea playing three times As last As i could every off in the Bode then sing went into synthesizers and drum sequencers and the guitar stuff storied Frig away. No 1 want to play my electric guitar again. It s what i do Best. The show is a comprehend Oyer new of Young s running More than three hours and Cove eng 25 twp or. Soul the 1967 Anthem written when Young was part of 0""� Spring fiend. Opens the set. Signature Young tunes  Ouda a Folk. By the show Crri Young plays most of his classic real or Moira. Including d"T1 ofte Over. Heart of Gold. After the Gold Rush and Lite a humane As Well As six new As Yel unrecorded songs. The Lour la scheduled for major cities around the United states in Roufeh the end of november. Young s current ebullient mood is in marked Contrail to Nis recent feelings after lengthy Battles with his record company Gaffari records. I was sued for making music thai was uncharacteristic of Nell Young " he says acidly. The first record i gave them. Trans originally was called be and in the Sun. Ii was a really Good record but it was t a commercial record and it wart i a Rock n1 Roll record but no one had Ever said anything to me about thai before. Since it was my first record Lor that company i thought maybe i should listen 10 these people. From then on the flow of my records has been disturbed. I see Mysell As painting these pictures and they re hanging in a gallery one Attar another. I can see Back to the beginning How they All Tell a Story and i can see my life going by. It gets to the Point where there Are the ones they would t let me hang on the Wall which has gone on Over the past Lew  Young sees his cd Irene album Landing on water As the culmination of this frustrating period. I be been fighting to put out whal i wanted he says. I think a lot of those pressures Are referred to on Ine record. The songs were written while i was trying to make the record and was coming up against a lol o backlash from the company. I be had to Battle for the last four or five years on an artistic level which was wearing me Down but also it s Given me renewed strength i be made basically stylistic concept records or a few years and now i really eel like playing Rock n Roll. I be been away from it Lor so Long thai i m not bored with it. I Haven t played Rock in eight years solve been wetting out in a gym Lor the last year and making myself Strong cause i love to Rock. With crazy horse i can play my guitar and have a Good time and i can really Fly. To me that s what Rock n Roll is All  Young Points to Bruce Springsteen s live shows As a source of inspiration. Rock n Roll concerts have been redefined by Bruce says Young. This Guy s doing Tia right thing he s healthy he plays a Long time he gives the people what they want and he leaves them Leeling Good i Admire Bruce he s made a Good role Model for a lot of kids. They see the Way to live a Long Lime and speak out Tor yourself is to be in shape and work out and be Strong be  one of the High Pointa of Young s set is his Solo acoustic version of the Needle and the damage done a song from the tonight s the night album which was written about crazy horse guitarist Danny Whitman. Who died of a drug overdose. Tonight s the night is a portrait about the end of a career says Young of whal Rock n Roll can do How it kills people and How drugs kill people and How dark it really can get. So Many people have of d and died and done All kinds of things to terminate their lives. I thought it was Worth dwelling on. I wrote it about Danny Whiten but it was also about Jimi Hendrix Jante Joplin the ghosts of All those people were  Young touches that same nerve on hippie dream which follows Nepote. In the live show. Young wrote the song last Christmas in part As a comment on his former band mate David Crosby s cocaine dependence it s dark but it a real insists Young. I be seen people so drugged out Lay were ready to die they wanted to die. They were giving up. People who had Beautiful dreams who d been visionaries or their generation."slil1 hypo a voo"8 iding May not be  a Gonna be All right now he says. He Tooka of Good. He and Graham Nash were Al my ranch just about ago. We had a real Good Lime -1 pane 16 the stars and stripes wednesday october 1,1986