A lot of rock stars who started out in the 1960s futzed around with moviemaking at some point in their careers, but few if any of them have proven as stubbornly devoted to it as Neil Young. Although his early efforts betrayed little evidence that he had filmmaking in his veins, Young, whose picture can be found in the dictionary next to the definition for the word "ornery", stuck at it, and in the last few years he's scored a couple of triumphs: the strange, handmade-looking feature that he made to illustrate his concept album Greendale (2003) was his proudest achievement as a director, and he starred in a fine, autumnal concert movie directed by Jonathan Demme, Heart of Gold (2006). Around that same time, he once again went on tour as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but with a difference this time. Young had just released an angrily political album, Living with War--it features his singalong ditty "Let's Impeach the President"--and he played it for his bandmates and informed them that "This is all I want to do." Apparently this was not meant as an invitation to put it to a vote.
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