This rare Neil Young photo in Annecy, France (1982) by Gilles Bascop really kind of says it all.
Per our Twitter post asking "Anyone know the story here?", WoodyWood75 replied with details on the photographer Gilles Bascop.
Other details on whether this kid just wandered onto stage or something else are unknown.
Maybe Neil Young will remember that a little French boy needs him around anyhow?
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On French TV, this concert made national news, illustrated by an uninterrupted 2-minute (!) clip of "Cortez". Different times...
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I live not far from Annecy and IIRC there are no stairs like these inside the (very small) stadium where the concert took place. These look like the outside stairs leading up to the bleachers an/or emergency exits. Also, judging by the shadows it's mid-afternoon, but the concert was scheduled at 9PM. My guess is that the picture was taken backstage before or after soundcheck.
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ReplyDeleteOddly enough, according to sugarmountain, this Annecy concert was only the second NY concert in France, after a 1976 Paris date on a european tour. Could someone confirm it ? It seems weird, since Harvest was a huge hit in France - and is still as popular as ever : French neo-folk band La Maison Tellier covered the whole album on stage last may and it was sold-out (listen to one of their covers on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnChclkATyU)
Anyway, while in the US Neil's popularity had started to fade by 1982, in France it marked a resurgence, with heavily covered concerts and his first ever interview on French TV :
https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i00006629/neil-young-interview-dans-son-ranch-de-californie-1 (other clips available at ina.fr).
Yeah ! Annecy was the second show of Neil Young in France before Frejus, Dijon, Quimper and other venues ! It was only his second tour in Europe after 1976...
DeleteAnd 1982 was Neil's first visit to Italy. I still fondly remember the show in Roma, in front of 65K+ persons and a nightmare exit from the overcrowded parking lot. I was 22 then...
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