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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
David McLean

The Glasgow footage that finally proved Neil Young busked outside Central Station

For decades it was one of Glasgow's most enduring urban myths, with claims that it happened being met with a very firm, "aye, right". Then, some 35 years after the fact, a reel of grainy footage emerged that proved for once and for all that Neil Young really did busk outside Central Station.

The date is April 2, 1976, and Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse have just arrived in Glasgow ahead of their concert at legendary city venue the Apollo.

Awaiting the Canadian singer-songwriter are a couple of Scots filmmakers, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat, who have been enlisted by Neil Young's record company, Reprise Records, to capture some "funky s**t footage" of the band before their show.

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