Neil Young's Ohio – the greatest protest record

Neil Young's moving response to the killings at Kent State University 40 years ago this week was the pinnacle of a very 1960s genre. The revolution never cameOne day in the middle of May, almost exactly 40 years ago, Neil Young was hanging out at the house of his road manager, Leo Makota, in Pescadero, California, when his bandmate, David Crosby, handed him the latest issue of Life magazine. It contained a vivid account and shocking photographs of the killing of four students by the Ohio nation...

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