“ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SHOULD NEVER DIE”

It’s the summer of 1995 and Steve Sutherland is paying a visit to Neil Young on his home turf near San Francisco to hear about his affinity to grunge and how he just keeps on keeping on

They’ve started calling me Don Grungeone,” says Neil Young, scratching the bald bit at the back of his head, the bit he hides under his cap, his sole concession to vanity. Then he laughs heartily. “I’ve kinda got this fatherly thing happening right now. Don’t ask me why. I’m just here, where I always was, doing what I love to do.” He’s being disingenuous, of course. We all know why he’s Don Grungeone. It’s because Kurt Cobain quoted Young in his suicide note. He wrote: “it’s better to burn out than to fade away,” a lyric from Young’s Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black). “I don’t wanna talk about that,” he says, stiffening up. “I just don’t know what to say. Obviously, his interpretation should not be taken to…

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