There's a chance Young was conveniently turning a blind eye. It topped the charts in 19 countries and sold 12m copies. How did a man once so eager to demonstrate his awareness of new musical developments that he told an incredulous early 80s interviewer his favourite band were A Flock of Seagulls get so out of touch? How had he managed to miss Green Day's American Idiot, an album released 18 months after the invasion of Iraq? It's not like it slipped out on an obscure indie label to a smattering of critical acclaim then vanished. "I waited until I was 60, then it was too late to wait, I had to do it myself." It was a comment that left you reeling, not for the reasons Young thought it did - honestly, musicians today, tsk tsk, no political conscience, only interested in celebrity and copping off with Agyness Deyn - but because of its wrongness.
"Shouldn't you let someone else protest this one?" "I tried," shrugs Young. "Didn't you get all this out of your system with Vietnam?" asks Colbert. M idway through Déjà Vu, the documentary about Crosby Stills Nash & Young's noble attempt to interest America's conservative heartland in Neil Young's Bush-bashing Living With War album, Young appears on satirist Stephen Colbert's TV show.
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