Tom York

So I have to sort of prepare myself by drinking heavily.

And eventually, after pretty much the entire evening's gone by and he keeps walking past me and I'm like freezing, you know, because it's basically like someone meeting Elvis in their house.

Eventually he stops to talk to me and I just go...

I really want to play After the Gold Rush tomorrow.

He's like, really?

That's great.

You could do it on the piano I recorded it on.

I'm like, ah, ah.

So there I am on the day with Neil Young side of stage watching me playing this incredible song or trying to because it's too high for me to sing in front of him on the piano it was recorded on.

Neil Young and After the Gold Rush.

I mean, a unique voice, Tom York.

And I can see why, you know, early reviewers and people subsequently have drawn parallels between, you know, his voice and yours.

In my dreams.

Yeah, it's funny listening to it.

I remember when I got that record, it was the first time I thought, wow, it's so fragile.

Even when a singer is singing technically brilliantly.

the powerful stuff is the stuff where there's the vulnerability, the sense that things could just fall apart at any minute.

I mean, you know, I was only like 18, but until I got that record, I didn't realise how important that was going to be to me.

And the other guys picked up on it quicker than I did, and I was always trying to hide behind, turn the vocal down, add things on top, but I think by the time we were doing the bends, the second record, it was like,

Oh, OK.