Rockin’ His Way

Neil Young did “Rockin’ in the Free World” on Saturday Night Live 30 years ago today (September 30th). And he did it his way he spoke about why he doesn’t like playing on TV, but admitted to having pulled it off with that particular appearance in a 1992 interview:

“What I really don’t like about doing TV and why, from the beginning, I hardly ever did any TV, is that you really don’t really have control of what’s going on. I’m a control freak — I freely admit this. When I’m doing my thing, everything has to be the way I want it, or I just don’t go. I try to be as open as I can, and if the circumstance isn’t right, then I’ll be inhibited and I’ll be distracted and I can’t do my thing. On television, your control is limited. I did Saturday Night Live a couple of years ago and I was successful at doing the show and being a musician and playing music.”

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