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Neil Young: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 16 December 1989

OUTSIDE IT'S thronged, tickets £60 a throw, there's a buzz in the air you seldom find at gigs these days. Inside there's two Crazy Horse campadres to add support, but mostly its just Neil, cast as the Last Living Frontiersman, alone bluesman in denims neatly and suspiciously torn at the knee.

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