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Martin Robinson

Neil Young at Glastonbury review: did this show even happen?

Neil Young performing on the Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm - (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

If a gig happens and no-one is there to film it, did it really happen?

This is the question we face in this Day and Age, so the older folk may witheringly say, but it’s an interesting question nonetheless. Neil Young banned the BBC from televising his headline performance on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, for reasons which remain unclear but seems to be something to do with the perceived ‘corporate’ issues that led Young to drop out of Glastonbury earlier this year, only then to change his mind.

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