主講人：馬世芳

NEIL YOUNGROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD

Oct 10, 1989

1969 1979 2000

1975 1979

ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD

There's colors on the streetRed, white and bluePeople shufflin' their feetPeople sleepin' in their shoesBut there's a warnin' sign on the road aheadThere's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off deadDon't feel like Satan, but I am to themSo I try to forget it, any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free worldKeep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the nightWith a baby in her handUnder an old street lightNear a garbage canNow she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hitShe hates her life, and what she's done to itThere's one more kid that will never go to schoolNever get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free worldKeep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of lightFor the homeless manWe got a kinder, gentler,Machine gun handWe got department stores and toilet paperGot styrofoam boxes for the ozone layerGot a man of the people, says keep hope aliveGot fuel to burn, got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free worldKeep on rockin' in the free world,Keep on rockin' in the free world.

first performed live in concert:February 21, 1989

June 5, 1989, 北京

June 19, 1989

Nov 9, 1989

“LOVE IS ALL WE NEED” Neil Young in Berlin, 1982.

NBC Television"Saturday Night Live"

Sep 30, 1989

(10 days before the album release)

Neil Young (g,v)Frank “Poncho” Sampedro (g)

Steve Jordan (d)Charley Drayton (b)

“Yeah, well I was. I don't like TV. Never have. It always sucks and there's nothing you can do about it. You can't just walk on and do 'Rockin' in the Free World,' or you'll look like a fuckin' idiot. To perform that song the way it's supposed to be performed you have to be at peak blood level, everything has to be up, the machine has to be stoked. To do that I had to ignore Saturday Night Live completely. I had to pretend I wasn't there.”

“I removed myself from the whole fucking scene, went to a room in the other end of the building, never hung out, never watched the show, completely ignored the skits.

Steve Jordan and Charley Drayton were playing with us on the gig and Poncho (Frank Sampedro) and I went up and trashed their dressing room, fucking graffiti, broke everything in it and painted it with spray-cans.

In my mind, you gotta be jacked into it, man. It’s fucking life and death and you’re only as good as your last note. So I had to ignore what was going on there. I never do live Rock ‘N’ Roll on TV - that was a huge exception to the rule - and I probably never will again. I was very, very lucky that I played well and everything came off good.”

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