Harvest - Neil Young

There are few absolutely perfect albums, but this is one of them.

A couple of years ago we went to see the Neil Young: Harvest Time documentary, and it was fascinating to watch footage of them working up, rehearsing and recording these songs that are now so well known.

I was a bit surprised to see Barking Town Hall used as the location for recording the orchestral parts of A Man Needs A Maid. I used to walk past there on my way to... well, anywhere, when I lived on the Gascoigne.

Young (who was shockingly young at the time) is digging his heels in with the LSO and insisting that they re-do takes until he is happy. Such confidence and vision.