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Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Paul says: It's time for me to finally start posting the most wanted performances from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. Since everything I'll be posting is available with great sound quality because it was broadcast by the BBC, I'll be posting these as BBC albums. In my poll about this festival, the number one most wanted performance was by Neil Young. So here it is.

At the time of this concert, Young was 79 years old. I heard one of his concert recordings from a couple of years prior to this, and that made he concerned that his voice was starting to go. But I'm glad to say he still sings and plays lead guitar like a younger version of himself.

Young, with his latest band, the Chrome Hearts, played no songs from his most recent albums. However, his set wasn't a "best of" either, despite performing for a huge crowd that didn't buy tickets just to see him. He did play some favorites, but he also played some relative obscurities, for instance "Be the Rain" and "Sun Green" from his 2003 album "Greendale." And stylistically, he went from solo acoustic at times to long, jammy full-band songs at other times. All in all, it was a solid show.

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

01 talk (Neil Young)
02 Sugar Mountain (Neil Young)
03 Be the Rain (Neil Young)
04 When You Dance, I Can Really Love (Neil Young)
05 Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
06 Fuckin' Up (Neil Young)
07 talk (Neil Young)
08 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
09 The Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young)
10 Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
11 talk (Neil Young)
12 Looking Forward (Neil Young)
13 talk (Neil Young)
14 Sun Green (Neil Young)
15 talk (Neil Young)
16 Love and Only Love (Neil Young)
17 Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)
18 Name of Love (Neil Young)
19 Old Man (Neil Young)
20 talk (Neil Young)
21 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
22 talk (Neil Young)
23 Throw Your Hatred Down (Neil Young)

Now this is interesting and worth having for Glastonbury viewers this year . .  not least because I couldn’t find it on the BBC Glastonbury site and along with some other glaring errors of omission (no Tremolos) I was shocked but thought as he had had to be cajoled into appearing that the Beeb maybe sulked and didn’t feature Neil’s set too heavily. I may be mistaken as it seems an oversight to me but hey . . . here ’tis!

SOUNDABOARD has this set from Groningen

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts - Summerstage Drafbaan Stadspark, Groningen, The Netherlands (2025-07-01)

This August we have aboard some shows from Neil Young's recent European tour.

They are generally good audience recordings and were were kindly provided by Vinegar Joe.

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Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts

Summerstage Drafbaan Stadspark, Groningen, The Netherlands

July 1, 2025

Track List:

Ambulance Blues

Be the Rain

When You Dance, I Can Really Love

Cinnamon Girl

Fuckin' Up

Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

The Needle and the Damage Done

Harvest Moon

Looking Forward

Sun Green

Love And Only Love

Like a Hurricane

Name of Love

Old Man

Throw Your Hatred Down

Rockin' in the Free World

Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert Glastonbury Festival UK 2009 | Albums That Should Exist

Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2009

Paul says : Here is Neil Young's third, and so far last, BBC concert. It's from the huge, annual Glastonbury Festival in 2009.

This was the first and still only time that Young has performed at Glastonbury. However, as I write this in February 2025, it has been reported that Young is scheduled to be one of the headliners in the summer of 2025. (There were news reports that he canceled due to a dispute with the BBC, but then later reports that he undid the cancellation.) So let's hope that later in 2025 there will be a "Volume 4" in this series.

This 2009 concert was not performed with his band Crazy Horse. However, you'd be excused if you thought otherwise, because this was very much in the same rocking mode as his Crazy Horse stuff. Instead, his band was just called his "Electric Band."

This is also a long, complete concert, nearly two hours long. Only some of his songs were broadcast on BBC TV or radio, less than an hour's worth. But somehow the full version was made public with excellent sound quality, so I'm posting all I can.

A couple of months prior to this concert, Young released his latest studio album, "Fork in the Road." He didn't promote it much in this concert, however, performing a grand total of one song from that album, "Get Behind the Wheel." Instead, he did classics from all phases of his long music career, plus a cover of "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles as the final encore.  

This album is an hour and 46 minutes long. 

01 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
02 Mansion on the Hill (Neil Young)
03 talk (Neil Young)
04 Are You Ready for the Country (Neil Young)
05 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young)
06 talk (Neil Young)
07 Spirit Road (Neil Young)
08 talk (Neil Young)
09 Words (Neil Young)
10 Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
11 Mother Earth [Natural Anthem] (Neil Young)
12 The Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young)
13 talk (Neil Young)
14 Comes a Time (Neil Young)
15 Unknown Legend (Neil Young)
16 Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
17 Down by the River (Neil Young)
18 Get Behind the Wheel (Neil Young)
19 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
20 talk (Neil Young)
21 A Day in the Life (Neil Young)