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Leaving "the Middle of the Road": 51 Years From Neil Young's "on the Beach"

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In the "Decade" notes, Neil Young wrote that the success of "Heart of Gold" at the top of the charts "put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became boring, so I went to the ditch. A tougher trip, but I saw more interesting people there." The first studio LP that emerged from that ditch, "On the Beach", was released on July 16, 1974. But "On the Beach" was not Young's first LP after "Harvest" in 1972. That honor belongs to "Time F…
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In the "Decade" notes, Neil Young wrote that the success of "Heart of Gold" at the top of the charts "put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became boring, so I went to the ditch. A tougher trip, but I saw more interesting people there." The first studio LP that emerged from that ditch, "On the Beach", was released on July 16, 1974. But "On the Beach" was not Young's first LP after "Harvest" in 1972. That honor belongs to "Time F…

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Futuro broke the news in on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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