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Neil Young: Tonight's The Night 50th Anniversary Deluxe

Read "Tonight's The Night 50th Anniversary Deluxe" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 28, 2025

Given the checkered history behind Neil Young's Tonight's The Night (Reprise, 1975), the 50th Anniversary Deluxe might well have been issued as a multi-disc package. An expanded collection of this third entry in 'the Ditch Trilogy'--along with Time Fades Away (Reprise, 1973) and On The Beach (Reprise, 1974)-- would accommodate the original recordings of 1973, the subsequent additions from different sources (overseen by Young's now-deceased manager Elliot Roberts), plus the (multiple and) final (sic) resequencing of the dozen cuts during ...

Extended Analysis

Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD)

by Doug Collette
December 3, 2022

To hear and see Neil Young express such deep-seated personal contentment near the end of his film Harvest Time is to understand more fully why he would go to some lengths to curate a box set of the album upon which the movie is based. While some of the content enclosed on the CDs and DVDs in the 50th Anniversary Edition of the 1972 album has been in unofficial circulation for awhile, immersion in the collection vividly depicts the vagaries ...