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  • One of the smartest most genuine musicians of all time

  • You can tell this prick thinks Neil Young should feel honoured to be interviewed by him Neil should have spent the time making look him look what he is. A knob. Unfortunately the Telly's full of these cunts with massive egos these days.

  • It's an odd interview because the interviewer knows he's interviewing a famous singer songwriter, who's works are widely regarded as the greatest of our times. Given that criteria, I'm sure he assumed there was an ego or a pre-determined attitude to come along with him.

    But Neil is simply human, he says what he feels, he does what he wants, and he knows he's no more special than the guy standing next to him. Ask him a special question, you get a simple answer.

    His music speaks for him.

  • I hear this then listen to Britney Spears and wanna kill myself!

  • Producer: "Neil, you're a little out of key".

    Neil: "That's my style man".

  • Great interview!

  • I like Neil Young as a person and as a musician. He walks with God.

  • As a musician and fan I love a lot of Neil Young's tunes, esp Throught the years, Harvest Moon, but I can also clearly say that musician have far too much influence in the field of politics in which so many are naieve and ignorant of the true nature of  things political

  • 4:02 - neil young is david brent!

  • At 4:03 Neil is like: "Seriously?...."

  • @Hannah4syth Yeah that was hilarious

  • I do it for myself and I don't care if others like it or not, it is not about that...Love it

  • That was cool to see Neil's face when interviewer said he was his newest fan....He still enjoys winning people over with his music after all these years..lol

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  • all you sheep need to sort your fucking heads out. Neil is an absolute gem, and we all know exactly how rich and diverse his music is and like me you've probably read Shakey and become fascinated by the man and his complexities and history. But i remember a time when i prefered csn to young, shit, not even a few years before my favourite music was electronic. Mark's opinion has fucking changed, as is natural in humans, so get off your high horse. Mark is very intelligent, he's not a imbecile

  • How come that punk thats knows nothing gets to meet Neil Young? :(

  • anyone know the name of the song that starts at around 1:04?

  • @samorocks96 "Leave the Driving."

  • the face at 4:02 says it all....

  • love it . . . " not TRYING to be anything other than it is "

  • I love this.. Because kermode was always ragging on Young for the longest time.. And Heart of Gold was like a lightening bolt of truth for him. He could hear and feel the genius of Young for the first time, and was brave enough to admit he was wrong.

    Great stuff. I don't always agree with Mark, but he's always great to watch

  • Where do you folks come from ? What are you putting up ? If music is important ?Then Young is really important.When we are all pushing up the daisies i,m sure the people studying "pop music 1950 odd to 2000 odd will have his music as a real catorgory in its time

    regards

    jimmy

    regards

    jimmy

  • Where do you folks come from ? What are you putting up ?

    regards

    jimmy

  • If you didn't like Neil Young is just because you were, and still are, a bloody sod with faggot hair!

  • I like the way the interviewer makes it all about himself even before the interview starts.

  • The interviewer is an ass kisser

  • Great man, great artist!!!

  • the interviewer is a fool, how can you hear Neil Young and not be a fan straight off? no matter what music you listen to

  • all of these people are serving the people.

    The guy makeing sure the drugs hit the streets on time is just as important as the guy building parts for going to outer space.

    Vote up if you agree with neil young on that topic :)

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  • ok people, the point is mark seen the light and he finally realised that neil is a genius. christ, you people won't be happy unless mark sucks his cock will you ?

  • wow, Mark Kermode actually likes something for a change

  • @opensourcethong

    lol Mark likes a lot of stuff.

    He could take all day about films he loves.

  • What about Mr. Obama's planetary wars, Neil? Pakistan, the Sudan, Afghanistan, expanding military bases and navies all over the earth, to say nothing of his servility to Wall Street, eh?

  • Young does this iconic song so well ,only he could do that at that so emotional time i think.

    regards

    jimmy

  • Im so sick of friggin everyone saying Leonard Cohen is the best Canadian songwriter...damn it Neil is ..even Rush write better songs than cohen

  • @nneevveerrmmoorree lol wtf im guessing thats sarcasm.

  • How can one not like Neil Young? It's like not liking pizza.

  • contempt at 6:41

  • I'm so surprised Kermode got into Neil Young.... so late in Kermode's ' trying to be achingly cool all the fukn time life'. Kermode is shite. His own band is awful. He's always getting them on TV though.He'll probably go on about ' On The Beach' now.

  • kermode ays he hated neil youngs music until heart of gold doc in 2006, then he contadicts himself saying he 'absolutly loved' the dead man soundtrack, composed entirely by young!

  • @connaught2008 maybe he listened to the dead man soundtrack after he saw the the heart of gold doc

  • This is what happened to me.

  • Can someone tell me the song at 1:05?

    The guitar doesn't sound like Neil Young, but the harp does.

  • @hindubatman Its "Leave the Driving" from Greendale

  • "I particularly enjoyed Yanni much more than you so this was also a journey into the heart of my own trendy British douchebaggery as well" What a putz lol Neil Young did and played how and what he wanted to, with complete disregard to who thought what. Rock on man.

  • 4:01  - Neil knows how much of an idiot this man is. hahaha

  • Don't you think its strange that singers lik neil young who preform for tenths of thousands of people are so shy in for example this private setting? (and yes the interviewer is a wanker)

  • my friends and I disagree. I say this man is a knob end but they say no, he's a wanker. What do you think?

  • well thats handy he thought he was shit right up until he had to interview him, what a fucking cock end, he knows fuck all about music and his views on films piss me off why did they send that twat to speak to neil young the migt aswell of sent a fucking telly tubby! they would of got more sense out of the cunt!

  • Mark Kermode hasn't got a clue about music - or movies for that matter.

  • Euro's don't know shit about great rockin roll!

  • Dude, you're kidding right?

  • @tercel5efe93

    Ya, The Beatles, The Who, The Stones,.....these guys don't know anything anout Rock and Roll.....

  • @tercel5efe93 Beatles, Stones, Who.....should I keep going?

  • clouds88, jealousy will get you nowhere. We'd all like to interview neil young, i know I would, but why the hell would he want us to interview him. He has to agree to it! Also, everyman is entitled to his opinions, isn't he? So stop complaining and just enjoy having Neil around.

  • interviewer = wanka.

  • this interviewer is stupid.

  • If anyone has any news of Young Commenting here,

  • But you love American homos. LOL

  • I was about to interview Neil Young, then I realized fuck i'm an idiot, then I interviewed Neil Young.

  • lol

  • @mcmacanerni Dude, easy on the language. I like to look at these videos with my kids! Thanks

  • @macaibhistin fuck off nazi censorship!!!

  • @mcmacanerni lmao

  • LOL british people want the american blues so bad

  • Up until June 06, I only had one NY cd- Unplugged. Then my divorce slammed me. I watched the Heart of Gold dvd, and that was it. His music & who he is brought me thru that troubling time. I have been a huge fan since that time. Thanks Neil.

  • Beautiful melancholy music...yes, but in different ways. Tonight's the Night is wayyyy different than, say, Harvest, for instance.

  • ding dongaling pingu

  • OK so a spectre of a holy war is bad, but I don't have a jihad against Islam, I say you go ahead and be muslim and I chose not to be. Too bad Islam won't extend me the same courtesy.

  • how many times must i say? anybody who doesnt like neil young is white trash and should die

  • thats kind of harsh.. isn't it? and i will not say borders on extremist values, but runs over that border into self righteous ignorance...

    i love neil young, to death... his music is everything to me..

    my friends aunt went to school with him back here in winnipeg...

    but if someone does not like his music, i would

    not wish them death... or trash them because of it... everyone has their own opinion...

  • right on brotha

  • I hate this interviewer, who does he think he is?

  • Another great Canadian singer, song writer, inventor 'yes he has patents' who keeps on surprising us with new talents

  • wow he looks alot different now and his voice is alot deeper than in the 70s lol

  • I think it's kind of cool that the interviewer had the nerve to tell Neil that he was not a fan before. On a higher note, he changed his mind upon hearing "heart of gold". It's all good, they ended up friends.

  • harleyboyforest you said it!!! I'm 49 listening since i was 16, everyone else you really need to know him for who he is. Read his books, you'll learn more than the interviews. Go to his website and see what his music is about.

  • Well, British people come across as very self important, but better to "get" a great artist late in his career (and highlight him on your show) then never get him at all.

  • fuck off, you stupid cunt.

  • Wait.... am I a "stupid cunt" because I was defending the interviewer against the rather vicious reactions on here, or because I don't full on agree with them? Or, are you British and offended that I said British people can come across as self important. Or, maybe you are just sorta angry for no good reason and like calling people "cunt" on a youtube comments board? Whichever it is, I forgive you. I will go fuck off now.

  • Yeah, the interviewer has almost a Sasha Barron Cohen level of unabashed self importance. Love all the shots of him listening, with that absurd haircut.

  • shut it, he will smack his cock across your face and give you a toothache

  • Jesus I fucking hate this shit-head reporter.

  • totally, he's a turd. he's 'suprised' he's getting to meet Neil because he hasn't liked him, like anyone knew or cared what this reporter thought!

  • Although America has brought us a ton of amazing music e.g. Aerosmith ,Boston, Bob Dylan and Lynyrd skynyrd too name a few.

    Britain, Canada, and Australia have far many more like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Neil Young, AC/DC, and Pink Floyd

  • There is some truth to this but I gotta tell ya buddy almost to a person the groups and people you mentioned will and have readily admitted that they learned from early American artists. There is one universal truth though, they all had to come here to get famous. Our marketing is bigger and they all use it. Just a little ribbing big guy.

  • I sort of hate the guy who interviews him, not as a person, just because he hasn't liked him for very long and then suddenly gets to meet him :\

  • oh yea...im with you on that hate....lol....lucky bitch

  • neil young is just a guy,who sings and plays for the people who like his work the man himself dont give a fuck if someone dont like his stuff..hes true to himself hes genuine and i love all his stuff one of a few very very great musicans

  • 0:23

    yes.. damn those.... those.. damn.. dang-a-lang guitars! haha

  • Shut up about Brits being arrogant ect... America has the biggest ego on the planet!!!

    Plus Neil is actually very co operative here, campaired to alot of interviews i have seen, clearly he isn't finding him the biggest twat ever.

  • Still pinching myself - Can hardly believe I saw him one week ago - can still see that strange face he pulls when he is so into a song and his playing - Me and my friend Gillian (massive fan) - call it his Cross Face. Broke the mould when they made him.

  • wow neil has been badass forever and only NOW does this guy appreciate him? ohwell at least he sees it now.

  • neil is the real deal. a real dude. making music. no bullshit. love the dude.. true inspiration. so glad to have had him in my life since the day i was born.

  • The dude abides

  • Real Neil.

  • I love Neil Young, but it's true that sometime his nose-voice kind of get a bit on my nerve ^^; But the lyrics ans the melody are so great that I forget about it :P

  • Did you even watch the interview at no point does he interrupt?

  • G'd on the BBC; I don't suppose Mark does interrupt - this style of Qing is very pop ask Q & proceed to offer personal take = giving V little time for Neil to speak... Maybe someone could do a word count! Apparently getting an Interview w/Neil Young is tough, being quite a private person. Therefore I would much rather hear what Mr Young has to say for himself, than what Mr Kermode (who is a well-known critic, but NOT the subject of this interview) has to say for Neil Young. Sorry to Mark fans!:)

  • if you have ever seen another neil young interview what you would realise is that he can be quite snappy and unco-operative so if neil young thought he was being interupted he would make his thoughts known about it

  • "SPELLBINDING&MAGICAL" ~ ~'*'

  • Kermode is a movie reviewer rather than a music journalist, hence the stress in the interview on Neil cinematic career.

    NY is more relaxed in this interview than most of the others I've seen of him, so not a bad effort Kermode....

  • i love you uncle neil. cant wait to see him again. :(

  • They call it the American Dream

    because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.

    - George Carlin RIP

    Neil has this look on his face like 'this dude doesn't BEGIN to know what it is to be real'

  • words

  • I love me some Neil!

  • actaull he has dual citizenship and summers in omemee ontario canada

  • No, he doesn't. He has only Canadian citizenship.

  • Neil? Sorry, I haven't seen to which question you're answering, but if you're talking about Neil Young, he IS Canadian, was born in Toronto. If you're talking about somebody else, well sorry to be naggin :P

  • Sorry Canada, he is all USA now.

  • its makes us feel good that you say that you know, because he's so great and from our country. but unfortunately for you, he's all canuck

  • And actually, he dosen't have American citizenship, he just lives part time in California...

  • Sorry about that gkiapos I didn't mean to mark your comment as spam. Our country you mean Canada right? We have so little poets we're not letting this one go!

  • This BBC interviewer doesn't even know who he's talking to... Neil Young is one of our country's great poets and voices of neo modern times... the journalist, IMHO, is simply someone who is trying to promote his own career in changing his tune. Neil Young continues to influence me, and millions of others aside from what this journalist is trying to sell for the sake of a job. Niel Young links to the Source, and doesn't need guys like this to let people know that Neil Young exists.... Peace...

  • booyeh.

  • agreed

  • Long-live the Godfather of Grunge..

  • he doesnt give a shit if the guy likes him or not

  • The man can carry off a plaid shirt!

  • everybody shutup. this is for educational purposes only. GOD TOLD ME!

  • "I'm just a believer!"

    Bob Marley says: Time will Tell. With Neil, time has told ... heart of gold. We love ya, man. Thanks for posting this great video.

  • I think Neil liked him

  • whiney-nasel voice fuck you have you heard your voice you prick...

  • stupid brit. and the last comment? from kidd or whatever ur name is? you sir are a fucking moron.kill yourself.

  • yeah you were probably a hippie so shut up

  • omg dead man is one of my top 10 fav films of all time! most likely in the top 2 lol! i cant even remember how many times i have seen that piece of beauty.

  • As often is, interviewers are frustrated and/or envious. The centre of attention is Neil and not the bloody journalist. Half of the interview was a description of personal feelings of that twat about Neil's music. Outrageous.

  • fakest reporter ever

  • That Dead man section was interesting, never realised it was all an improvised live soundtrack performance.

  • I love the look he gives to the camera at 4:04 after the interviewer says his burst into tears bullshit.

  • haha, cool

  • hahahah the face says it all

  • man that interviewer doesn't deserve to be in the same room with neil ive loved his music since i was 3 years old how the fuck do u not like neil young and then suddenly become "converted" when you have to interview him fuckin phony bastard

  • stupid interviewer boggin it all down in his opinion and conversion - just n time to be flown out to interview the guy - blahblahblah - stick to the double bass man

  • that's the neil I know and love - godspeed neil

  • what a dumbass reporter, I can't believe BBC has sent such an idiot to interview Neil.

  • that was sweet. Welcome into the fold brother.

  • MY GOD ive never heard of this greendale thing is it a movie neil made it looks so cool the clip at 5:14 looks so awsome and the house number is 666, LOVE YOU NEIL SAW YOU LAST NIGHT best show ever

  • Greendale is AWESOME, rent it and watch it... also after having the sound track for Dead Man for about ten years I finally got around to watching the actual movie last weekend - highly highly recommended.

  • siickk. thanks man!

  • "but really I'm just doing it for myself"  How the fuck do you beat that!!!!

  • Why do brits always seem so condescending? "Nasal voice and dang alang guitars." This uptight souless ego twit needs to realize he is not as cool as he thinks he is. Rock and roll was created with twang alng guitars in the deep south not in Brighton....tool

  • How is one man's opinion representative of a whole nation?

  • They think they're superior to folk from the colonies,or dominions,that's just british arrogance. Regarding Neil, A fine citizen of the planet.

  • Does America have programs of this kind of quality?

  • Hey. Not all British are arrogant.

    Neil is good.

  • what? you are not even british and british wouldn't accept you as one ni99er. stfu already and die, stop harrasing marijuana activists and atheists because they are legitimate minorities, stop your attacks on richard dawkins and stephen hawking. if you were in fact a british you would be the arrogant kind little monkey, you ape

  • Hello mazdaplz

    My little psycho Internet stalker.

    You still not getting a h#rd on?

  • You are very ignorant!

  • This interview was great. I've seen tons of interviews with Neil, and I think this is one of the most succinct and insightful. Mark Kermode, the interviewer, is actually a very insightful film critic, and I think he brings a lot of fresh energy here being a new convert. Brilliant.

  • Well put. Neil is rarely as engaged in an interview as he is here.

  • "road to damascus conversion" what an arse. How can you not like Neil Young?

  • Because not all people are exactly the same?

  • this guy is a dick, he didn't like neil because of his nasaly voice, fuck him

  • WTF? He IS now a Neil Young fan, he got converted dude!

  • Poor old Mark, although he is a theatre/film/TV/music critic, or something like that, it does take a bit of time for the penny to drop, and then when it does he tends to go overboard like he has found the true meaning of life.

  • The guy who's main job is to get the drugs to the street on time? He's just doing his job to support the people on the street? Neil, where did you come up with this logic. Am I misunderstanding the point or is Neil just totally screwed up and confused morally.

  • It's supposed to be a morally neutral statement, I think. Shortly after that he references the "decay..destruction that time has wrought on the American Dream of greatness." Seems like what he's saying is more that all these parts, good *and* bad, are the cogs in modern America. Each is equally necessary to acknowledge if you're trying to take a realistic "snapshot" of America today.

  • Neil Young DESERVES an interviewer of his class - I mean with a view and an opinion- ,not a fat-haired blabla-youngass.

  • Does this guy blow Neil after the interveiw ?

  • no he doesnt, but your mom duzz

  • Living legend.

  • His speaking voice is so much deeper and awesome now.

  • Unlike many of his peers, he hasn't lost his voice to age! Incredible

  • i think neil is going into outer space ..to call a spade a spade

  • doing his job to get the drugs to the people...i have every respect for Neil and his music..but when we get on a bit ..OK give me as many thumbs down as u like

  • I don't think he was saying it was a GOOD thing it is just a reality.Everyone does something.

  • Neil young.... beautiful.

  • this interviewer dude is captain obvious. its sad that guys like that get the tight gigs then dont even really care. herez my resume bbc newz, eh... i dont have the gig but at least i aint a zombie...so sad:-#