Neil Young Withdraws from Glastonbury, Citing BBC Corporate Influence

[mikebike]

3 hours ago, blazes said:

I hope it emerges that Young objected to some sort of woke demand by the BBC.   Alas, a frail hope....

Do you know anything at all about Neil, co-founder of Farm Aid? 🤣

[mikebike]

3 hours ago, HK MacPhooey said:

Rust Never Sleeps wasn’t 50 years ago

Damn close...

[HappyExpat57]

13 hours ago, Social Media said:

Tickets for the event, priced at £373.50, have already sold out.

For ROD STEWART?!?

 

Yeah, that's a HUGE hard pass!

[SunnyinBangrak]

13 hours ago, theshu25 said:

Neil Young is a legend. If  Neil Young turned it down,must have been for a good reason.

He's a huge disappointment. I have been a lifelong fan, must have most of the vinyls bought way back when they came out. Even rubbish like Trans and Landing on water. I bought and treasured them and bored mates to death talking Neil and crazy horse. He was an anti establishment hero, and he influenced us to grow our hair long, to hate war and to hate "the man".

 

Fast forward to covid and he was suddenly an establishment shill. A voice against freedom. A voice against alternative voices(which of course turned out to be true) while Neil was on the side of lies, censorship, corporate profits and state control.

 

I am so very disappointed in Young. Crosby - even worse but he did the honorable thing and passed away so his fascism will go unchallenged. But Young, you are a fake and a disgrace. I own all your vinyls but will never play them again, it would be like celebrating mein kampf.

[Nick Carter icp]

15 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

He's a huge disappointment. I have been a lifelong fan, must have most of the vinyls bought way back when they came out. Even rubbish like Trans and Landing on water. I bought and treasured them and bored mates to death talking Neil and crazy horse. He was an anti establishment hero, and he influenced us to grow our hair long, to hate war and to hate "the man".

 

Fast forward to covid and he was suddenly an establishment shill. A voice against freedom. A voice against alternative voices(which of course turned out to be true) while Neil was on the side of lies, censorship, corporate profits and state control.

 

I am so very disappointed in Young. Crosby - even worse but he did the honorable thing and passed away so his fascism will go unchallenged. But Young, you are a fake and a disgrace. I own all your vinyls but will never play them again, it would be like celebrating mein kampf.

 

   Have you still got a record player ?

[jimmybcool]

3 hours ago, mikebike said:

Uhm, he did.

I disagree.  Some nebulous comment about corporate infiltration is too vague.  I believe he owes any fan of his that paid money for a ticket specifically to see him a response on exactly WHAT changed. 

[Social Media]

UPDATE just published:

 

https://news.sky.com/story/neil-young-confirmed-as-glastonbury-headliner-days-after-saying-he-was-pulling-out-13283164

[Social Media]

BREAKING: Neil Young has been confirmed as a headliner at this year's Glastonbury - despite saying he was dropping out due to the BBC's involvement in the festival.https://t.co/vEAuiyBLzm

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/kHdiQaRehv

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 3, 2025

[WorriedNoodle]

12 hours ago, JonnyF said:

He's right on this one though. I'd boycott anything the BBC had their dirty biased little hands on as well. 

He even admitted he was wrong on this one, so how wrong are you?

[pegman]

Whatever he was looking for he obviously got from the promoters. It didn't take long. Neil has a tremendous amount of respect within the Industry especially from fellow musicians. 

[thaibeachlovers]

22 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

His best work was 50 years ago which was very good.  Anything since makes me cringe terrible.

Which might explain why I haven't heard anything since his glory days.

[thaibeachlovers]

22 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

I feel he owes it to any of his fans hoping =to see him there to explain WHY. 

If he wanted to please the fans, he could put on a free concert. He hasn't.

[Evil Penevil]

It's possible Young's announcement that he would skip Glastonbury was part of a bargaining strategy.  He doesn't like his live performances to be broadcast and when he appeared at Glastonbury in 2009 , he only allowed the BBC to livestream five songs from a two-hourr set.  From the BBC:

 

Neil Young reverses his Glastonbury 'boycott'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrwvgj0149o

 

 

[kwonitoy]

 

Neil has a very long history of being against corporate sponsorship, must come from the old hippy days.

He's got a video from long ago, giving the beer companies holy hell about rather than spend billions in advertising, build a hospital

[bendejo]

Inside scoop: BBC wanted him to do "YMCA" as a tribute to the next US president, that's why he pulled out.  Beeb dropped the requirement, now it's smiles and handshakes all around.

 

The above sentences contain zero percent truth. 

 

18 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

For ROD STEWART?!?

 

Yeah, that's a HUGE hard pass!

I hear ya, but I learned from hanging around Bkk that Scots are quite proud of their Roddy, so careful as you go.

 

[bendejo]

3 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

Neil has a very long history of being against corporate sponsorship, must come from the old hippy days.

He's got a video from long ago, giving the beer companies holy hell about rather than spend billions in advertising, build a hospital

 

Back in the hippy era he was talking about the spaceships coming for us (After the Gold Rush).  I think it was around the year 2000 he got to promoting the environment and challenging big business to do something about it.  I remember seeing him on Colbert (when he was on the comedy channel) and he said "hey, I thought you were the guy waiting for the Silver Seed?"  and Neil said no more, now it's about protecting what we have.

 

Trivia question:  Before he headed for California he was in a Toronto band run by someone who would later be a big pop music personality -- the answer is so out there I'll let you guys do the search yourself.

 

[nahkit]

On 1/3/2025 at 4:25 PM, mikebike said:

Comparing Neil to Diana Ross is beyond insane.

Yeah, Neil has got much bigger bazongas.

[nahkit]

On 1/3/2025 at 4:25 PM, mikebike said:

 

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