Mumford & Sons share powerful advice from Neil Young: “You’ve got it all wrong, man”

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Mumford & Sons have shared the powerful advice that Neil Young gave them during the early years of their career, telling them, “You’ve got it all wrong, man”.While speaking to the Daily Star newspaper as part of their Wired column (via Music News), the band’s frontman, Marcus Mumford, opened up about how they used to be focused on their live performances until the ‘Old Man’ hitmaker had them re-evaluate their priorities.“I guess the first few years of our life as a band, we were like, ‘We’re touring musicians who need to make adverts for our life shows’.

That’s what the records are,” Mumford told the publication.A post shared by Mumford & Sons (@mumfordandsons)He continued: “I remember I said that to Neil Young once, and he was like, ‘You’ve got it all wrong, man.

Your live shows aren’t the things that are going to last. They’re moments in time and experiences that are beautiful and great, but your recordings are going to last.

So you need to pay attention to how you record music’.”Today (March 28), Mumford & Sons released their fifth album ‘Rushmere’, which marked their first new LP in seven years.