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Neil Young – ”The Needle And The Damage Done” (1972)
Danny Whitten.
Låten handlar om heroinmissbruk och bygger på Youngs egna erfarenheter från sina turnéer. Särskilt ska den handla om Crazy Horse-medlemmen och samarbetspartnern Danny Whitten som dog av en överdos.
Whitten hade bränt de flesta broar när Young gav honom en sista chans. Men han var för djupt nere i sitt missbruk.
Young har berättat (i boken ”Neil Young in his own Words”, 1997):
”We were rehearsing with him and he just couldn’t cut it. He couldn’t remember anything. He was too out of it. Too far gone. I had to tell him to go back to L.A. ‘It’s not happening, man. You’re not together enough.’ He just said, ‘I’ve got nowhere else to go, man. How am I gonna tell my friends?’ And he split. That night the coroner called me and told me he’d died. That blew my mind. Fucking blew my mind. I loved Danny. I felt responsible. And from there, I had to go right out on this huge tour of huge arenas. I was very nervous and … insecure.”
”I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done
I sing the song because I love the man
I know that some of you don’t understand
Milk blood to keep from running out”
Jorgens spellistor 