Neil Young: 'These people were our audience'

In this extract from his new autobiography, the singer recalls how he came to write his protest anthem Ohio, to commemorate four Kent State University students killed in 1970One night in San Francisco in the fall of 1969, CSNY was recording the Déjà Vu album at Wally Heider/Filmways recording studio. We were playing Helpless, and I had been going over it with Dallas Taylor, Greg Reeves, and Stephen [Stills] for hours. Although it is a simple song, it requires laying back, which was not really ...

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