Rumer on Neil Young

Neil Young isn't saying women should be skivvies – he's revealing his own inadequacies in this lamentNeil Young is an amazingly intuitive songwriter: he just seems to follow his subconscious. And for me, of all those singer-songwriters in the early 70s, he was the dark star, following his own path. A Man Needs a Maid is taken from Young's fourth studio album, 1972's Harvest, which was recorded when he had terrible back pain (to the point of being bedridden). So on a literal level, the song is ...

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