Neil Young’s ‘Out On The Weekend’
Essays on the small, underappreciated aspects of famous artistic pieces.
In this series of The Essay, five leading cultural voices choose a great work of art and talk about a small, under-appreciated aspect of the piece that carries great meaning for them.
For this edition, Shetland singer-songwriter and author of Sixty Degrees North and That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, Malachy Tallack, draws our attention to the briefest of mishaps in Neil Young’s ‘Out on the Weekend’ studio recording. An error which he describes as impossible to unhear once you have heard it.
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