Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe annals of contemporary music are rife with legendary unreleased albums: the Beach Boys’ “Smile,” The Who’s “Rock Is Dead,” Marvin Gaye’s “Love Man,” David Bowie’s soundtrack for “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” several from Prince, Bruce Springsteen and perhaps most of all, Neil Young.
Usually, such albums turn out to be unfinished and overblown in terms of their significance, leaving die-hard fans trying to piece together the ultimate version of a tantalizing missing link in a beloved artist’s catalog from scraps that were never a whole in the first place (or, in the case of “Smile,” a sprawling 9-CD boxed set from the unfinished album’s sessions).That is definitely not the situation with Neil Young’s.
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