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Sacramento`s own sonic sorcerers, The Clint Warner Band, are ready to summon the spirits of groove at The Valencia Club, 2162 Taylor Road in Penryn, this Sunday, October 20, 2024, from 2-6 PM.

🎶 **Why You Should Be There:**
The Clint Warner Band isn`t just playing music; they`re conjuring a universe where blues, rock, jazz, and funk don`t just coexist; they collaborate, creating a tapestry of sound that`s as vibrant as a nebula. Imagine a band that can make your feet tap with the force of a supernova, where every note feels like it`s telling a story from the heart of the cosmos.
🌟 K-ZAP`s "Band Together, United In Music" Initiative:
And guess what? They`ll be rocking the stage in K-ZAP shirts, not just because they look cool (which they do), but to support our initiative that unites the music community. It`s not just a concert; it`s a movement.
🎟️ More Details:
For all the details on how to join this musical odyssey, warp over to valenciaclubpenryn.com. Trust us, this isn`t just an event; it`s a rendezvous with the rhythm of the universe.
So mark your calendars, clear your dance schedules, and prepare to witness The Clint Warner Band turn The Valencia Club into a galaxy of groove. Because in the words of the great philosopher, Douglas Adams, "The universe is a pretty big place. If it`s just us, seems like an awful waste of space." Let`s fill that space with music, shall we?

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@talkingheadsofficial Reunite on ‘Jeopardy!’ to Present Category About Band’s Legacy

Band members celebrate 40th anniversary of Stop Making Sense by appearing together on quiz show.

THIS WEEK MARKS the official 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, and to celebrate, the band reunited on Jeopardy! to present a category entirely devoted to the group’s legacy.

David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison first appeared on-screen together to reveal they would ask contestants “clues about the movie and our music.”

One by one, band members then asked about the venue of their first show, when the then-trio opened for the Ramones (CBGB’s), the Stop Making Sense director who would later win an Oscar for Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), the first song the band recorded, about “the twisted thoughts of a homicidal narrator,” as Byrne said in the clue (“Psycho Killer”), and their biggest hit charts-wise (“Burning Down the House”).

The $2,000 clue in the Talking Heads category asked which of the band’s songs landed at Number 28 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Best Songs list, with contestant and self-proclaimed Talking Heads fan Zoe correctly answering “Once in a Lifetime.”

Talking Heads have been celebrating Stop Making Sense since last year, when the film was re-released to theaters and the band staged rare reunions to talk about the classic 1984 concert film.

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Crazy Stories from @eddievanhalen’s Weekend With @thomasdolbyofficial

The story of his collaboration with Van Halen’s resident guitar genius begins innocently enough, with Eddie being asked to contribute to two songs (“Eastern Bloc” and “Close But No Cigar”) on Dolby’s 1992 album “Astronauts & Heretics.”

Van Halen invited Dolby up to his home recording studio to squeeze in a couple days of work. Dolby says he soon realized, though, that “every hour of [Van Halen’s] day was like a scene from Spinal Tap.”

First Rule: No ‘Spinal Tap’ Jokes

When Dolby tried to break the ice by quoting a famous This is Spinal Tap line about sustain to Van Halen, he was met with a blank stare. When he asked if the guitarist had ever seen the famous rock music mockumentary, Eddie replied, “Yeah, dude, we saw that piece of s—.” He then went on to explain, “We didn’t think it was funny. It was like, someone followed us around with a camera, put it up on a screen, and everybody fell over laughing.”

Eddie Vs. The Environment

Apparently, the importance of energy conservation hadn’t hit home with Eddie just yet. Dolby says as soon as they arrived home from the studio, Van Halen plopped down in an oversized armchair and hit the remote control to turn on the massive gas fireplace “with a loud whooooomf!” This prompted a swift rebuke from Bertinelli: “Eddie! It’s ninety degrees out!” “Crank up the AC then, would you babe?” Eddie replied, “I’m beat.”

Alex Van Halen Vs. Outside Interests

Prior to his visit, Van Halen had warned Dolby that his bandmates, in particular his drummer brother Alex Van Halen, wasn’t thrilled with the notion of Eddie working on other people’s albums. During a chance meeting with Alex in the kitchen, Dolby decided to find out the truth for himself. “I hear you’re not nuts about Eddie playing on my album?” He asked. “You got that right, bro,” the drummer responded. “Last time we let him do that, he did a solo on that little f—er Michael Jackson’s [Thriller] record. That was the only reason [Van Halen’s subsequent album] 1984 got stuck at No. 2.”

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On this day the October 16, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience released their third and final studio album “Electric Ladyland.”

The double album was the only Experience record with production solely credited to @jimihendrix. It was the band’s most commercially successful release and its only number one album.

“Electric Ladyland” includes a cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” which became the Experience’s best-selling single.

Although the album received a mixed reception upon its release, it has since been viewed as one of Hendrix’s best works and one of the greatest albums of all time, being featured on various “greatest albums” lists.

Hendrix experimented with other combinations of musicians during the album’s recording including Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady and Traffic’s Steve Winwood, who played bass and organ, respectively, on the 15-minute slow-blues jam “Voodoo Chile.”

“Electric Ladyland” features a cross-section of Hendrix’s wide range of musical talent. It includes examples of several genres and styles of music: the psychedelic “Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” the extended blues jam “Voodoo Chile,” the New Orleans-style R&B of Earl King’s “Come On,”the epic studio production of “1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be),” the social commentary of “House Burning Down,” and the sixties-era British pop of Noel Redding’s “Little Miss Strange”and also “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” a staple of both radio and guitar repertoire.

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‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ The Glimmer Twins Shine On @therollingstones In 1974

‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ was released on October 16, 1974 and took the Stones to the top of the U.S. chart on November 23.

While the record seized the momentum of the title track and opening single the album saw the band at something of a crossroads, as their last to feature guitarist Mick Taylor and the first for seven years to be produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, going by the unofficial collective of the Glimmer Twins for the first time.

The video for the title track, with Charlie Watts disappearing thanks to an out-of-control bubble machine, is a much-loved visual highlight of the band at the time.

Another clip that captures the era is the official video for their cover of the Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” released as a U.S. single. The band’s sartorial choices are a thing to behold.

Strong new compositions such as “Time Waits For No One” and “Fingerprint File” helped the album to a strong reception, especially in the U.S..

Greg Shaw in Phonograph Record called it “the Stones’ most consistent album in years, their most open and alive sounding, and certainly their most healthy in terms of the direction it opens for them — although as always it would be a mistake to expect them to continue in a straight line.”

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The Faces are moving closer and closer’ to reunion and world tour

The English rock band have not played a live tour since the death of keyboard player Ian McLagan in 2014. But they reunited for one off shows and played “Stay With Me” at the Brits in 2020.

Speaking in Mojo drummer Kenney Jones said: “It’s always being talked about, all the time. People want it more than we realise. So let’s put it this way, we’re getting closer and closer.”

Asked if he would be up for a world tour he added: “’Course. F**king right! What, are you going to rehearse for two or three weeks and just do one show? Nah. But the emotional side of it is the fact that Ronnie and Mac are not there. We were thinking, ‘Who’s going to take the place of Mac?’ Steve Winwood came up. It’d be lovely. Watch this space.”

There is also new material set to come out with a number of songs finished. He explained: “It’s taking a long time. Basically, Woody and I have been in the studio together – he plays guitar, and I play drums to it, then Ronnie plays bass, and that’s about it, and we hang on to these ideas.

“We’ve done about 10 or 11 tracks. Some are great. Some are not. And we’re discovering [older] stuff all the time. I’ve got loads of my multi-tracks. I’ve got about 350, same with Woody.

“So we’ve got to try and go in the studio and listen to it all and be inspired by other ideas. Also, if we can get some tracks together with Ronnie [Lane] and Mac on them, even better.”

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The 1977 ‘CSN’ Hit @officialgrahamnash Wrote After a $500 Bet With a Drug Dealer

While heading home to Los Angeles from Maui in 1976, Graham Nash had some time to kill before a flight back, sat at the piano, and wrote a song after someone bet him he couldn’t. Nash met the dare by his friend he was staying with, who he called a “low-level drug dealer,” and wrote “Just a Song Before I Go” within 20 minutes.

“‘Just A Song Before I Go’ was one of the fastest songs I’ve ever written,” remembered Nash. “I was in Maui and had a couple of hours to kill before I had to catch a plane. I was at the house of a friend of mine—and even though he was a friend of mine, he had no respect for me. As I stood up to leave he said, ‘Hey I bet you $500 you can’t write a song just before you go.’ And he had no idea that he had given me the title for the song in the question.”

Nash wrote the song in the nick of time, caught his flight, and left Maui before a massive hurricane hit the island.

Nash’s lyrics run through the aches of leaving behind a loved one to go on tour and goes through all the motions of travel—packing, driving to the airport, and going to through security—before saying goodbye.

Released on Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s 1977 album “CSN,” “Just a Song Before I Go” was also the first single the band released after reforming in the late ’70s after splitting post-“Deja Vu.” Though it’s one of the shortest tracks on the album—running two minutes, 14 seconds—”Just a Song Before I Go” peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became CSN’s highest charting single since “Our House” in 1970.

Remembering the origins of the song, David Crosby said, “Graham was at home in Hawaii, about to go off on tour. The guy who was going to take him to the airport said, ‘We’ve got 15 minutes, I’ll bet you can’t write a song in that amount of time.’ Well, you don’t smart off to Nash like that, he’ll do it. This is the result.”

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@alexvanhalenofficial names famous singer he has in mind to perform unreleased Van Halen music

Alex Van Halen has revealed the singer he hopes might sing on unreleased and unfinished Van Halen music, saying: “Ideally, it’d be Robert Plant.”

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Alex Van Halen revealed that there is a large amount of unreleased music in the Van Halen vaults, but very little of it is finished.

“They’re all little pieces,” said the drummer. “A bunch of licks don’t make a song.”

Van Halen went on to say that he’s approached OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to see if they could analyze “the patterns of how Edward would have played something” in order to generate new guitar solos.

Van Halen said he hopes to recruit former Led Zeppelin frontman Plant to sing on any new music, despite the fact the pair haven’t spoken since 1993. “Ideally, it’d be Robert Plant,” he said. “You’re gonna think I’m out of my f***ing mind, but when conditions are right, things will manifest.”

Van Halen also said he wants to produce a biopic about his band’s rise to fame, although fans shouldn’t expect to see it in cinemas too soon. “It’s just a long-term plan,” he said. “I mean, to put things in perspective, the Queen movie took 30 years to make.”

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Why @jimmypage Had To Lie to His Record Label When Producing This Divisive @ledzeppelin Album

When John Bonham tragically died at 32 years old in 1980, the English rock band decided they could no longer continue as if nothing had happened. But there was one problem: Led Zeppelin was contractually obligated to produce one more record for their label, Atlantic Records.

Piecemealing “Coda” together was a challenge from both an emotional and production standpoint. Fortunately, Page’s time cutting his teeth as a session player in the 1960s paid off, and he was able to use overdubs, past live performances, and other outtakes to compile what would become the band’s 1982 release.

Without John Bonham, Jimmy Page had to compile a Led Zeppelin record out of scrap material. Throughout the musical hodge-podge, Page used “Bonzo’s Montreaux” as “Coda’s” backbone. Page told Radio.com the track “was recorded between “Presence” and “In Through the Out Door.” I’d worked on it with John.

Even with a backbone off which Page could build the rest of the record, he ran into yet another issue. Atlantic wanted a studio album, not a live compilation. So, Page decided to tell a little white lie to the label. “The earliest pressings of “Coda” included the information that “We’re Gonna Groove” was recorded at London’s Morgan Studios on June 25, 1969.”

“In reality, as was noted on subsequent releases of the album, the song was culled from a January 9, 1979, live performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Jimmy Page didn’t make a mistake,” the notes continued. “This was his sleight of hand. The contract with Atlantic called for a studio album. Lacking enough material for one, the guitarist cleverly doctored the live performance to make it sound like it was done at Morgan.”

Many fans place “Coda” at the bottom of their list of favorite Led Zeppelin albums. This makes sense, all things considered.

However, that small lie Jimmy Page told the record label helped him and his surviving bandmates fulfill their contract without disrespecting the memory of John Bonham.

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Fleetwood Mac Fans Are Speculating A Reunion Is Coming Following Big Hint

Is Fleetwood Mac reuniting? Fans sure think so.

Over the summer, Stevie Nicks said, in an interview with Mojo, that Fleetwood Mac would not continue on following the death of Christine McVie in 2022. “Without Christine, no can do,” she said. Nicks added, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

But, it seems that idea may be short-lived, because fans noticed that a new Instagram and TikTok account for the band that is driving speculation that something may be happening.

On TikTok, one fan shared screenshots of all of the accounts, and even one shot showing that the band’s Lindsey Buckingham follows this new accounts.

Although many fans were hopeful of a reunion, a few fans had commented in disbelief, saying “which could be nothing,” while another explained, “Unless it’s a couple of reunion gigs in memory of Christine, I can’t see it happening. John is winding down, we don’t know what state Lindsey’s voice is in either. Not to mention him and Stevie can’t work together.”

Meanwhile, Fleetwood Mac’s X account is up and active — however, as noted by the fan who shared the band’s new social media accounts on TikTok, their official website is down, aside from their merch store.

While some new social media accounts don’t necessarily mean the band is reuniting, it also doesn’t mean that they’re not. Incidentally, Stevie Nicks performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, for the first time in four decades.

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Sacramento`s K-ZAP has several pairs of tickets to see legendary ZZ Top at the Bob Hope Theatre in Stockton October 27th! Just send an email to free@k-zap.org before Sunday (10/20) and put ZZ Top in the subject line. Include your name, and phone number. One entry per person, please. Frequent winners may be eliminated. We`ll let you know Tuesday if you`ve won. ZZ Top October 27th in Stockton! More free music from K-ZAP! Tickets will be available at ticketmaster.com
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Fleetwood Mac Fans Are Speculating A Reunion Is Coming Following Big Hint

Is Fleetwood Mac reuniting? Fans sure think so.

Over the summer, Stevie Nicks said, in an interview with Mojo, that Fleetwood Mac would not continue on following the death of Christine McVie in 2022. “Without Christine, no can do,” she said. Nicks added, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

But, it seems that idea may be short-lived, because fans noticed that a new Instagram and TikTok account for the band that is driving speculation that something may be happening.

On TikTok, one fan shared screenshots of all of the accounts, and even one shot showing that the band’s Lindsey Buckingham follows this new accounts.

Although many fans were hopeful of a reunion, a few fans had commented in disbelief, saying “which could be nothing,” while another explained, “Unless it’s a couple of reunion gigs in memory of Christine, I can’t see it happening. John is winding down, we don’t know what state Lindsey’s voice is in either. Not to mention him and Stevie can’t work together.”

Meanwhile, Fleetwood Mac’s X account is up and active — however, as noted by the fan who shared the band’s new social media accounts on TikTok, their official website is down, aside from their merch store.

While some new social media accounts don’t necessarily mean the band is reuniting, it also doesn’t mean that they’re not. Incidentally, Stevie Nicks performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, for the first time in four decades.

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On this day October 15, 1967 the first annual Sacramento Pop Festival was held at Hughes Stadium featuring Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Hamilton Streetcar, The Hour Glass, Jefferson Airplane, New Breed, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Spirit, Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Sunshine Company.

Headliners Jefferson Airplane were at their creative highpoint riding the wave of their recently released album “Surrealistic Pillow.” The band Hour Glass featured future Allman Brother’s founding members Duane & Gregg Allman.

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@thedavidcrosby Wrote This CSNY Classic in Prison, Called It Best Song He Wrote Sober

In the early 1980s, folk rock icon David Crosby found the silver lining of his five-month prison stay in the form of a new life and one of the best songs he’s ever written. His sentence came after years of constant drug use, culminating in a Dallas arrest in 1982.

The song he wrote from his prison cell would later find its way onto Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1988 record “American Dream.”

When considering the best song he wrote while sober, he quickly settled on the track from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1988 release “American Dream,” titled “Compass.”

“I wrote it in prison about waking up from drugs,” Crosby explained. “It was when I realized that I was going to come back, I was going to get sober, I was going to be able to handle it. And then, I was going to write again—which was crucial. I was sober for the first time when it was released. It was a whole other ball of wax and a completely new world for me.”

Within the context of Crosby’s story, the lyrics to “Compass” cut that much deeper. I have wasted ten years in a blindfold, he begins, seemingly lamenting his decade of near-constant drug use. Ten-fold more than I’ve invested now in sight. I have traveled beveled mirrors in a fly crawl, losing the reflection of a fight.

Crosby’s drug use had been spiraling since the death of his girlfriend, Christine Hinton, in 1969. Shortly after his 1982 arrest, an anonymous friend close to the musician told People, “David [freebases] pretty much from when he gets up to when he collapses. I think you can safely say that David has smoked up everything he owns—all the cars, everything.”

Following Crosby’s arrest, he attempted to make a plea bargain by agreeing to go to a New Jersey rehabilitation facility. But after learning the facility wouldn’t allow instruments, he walked out, leading to his second arrest and imprisonment in the Texas State Prison in Huntsville.

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Beyond Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie’s Solo Work You’ve Probably Never Heard

@christinemcvieofficial was one of the most underrated members of Fleetwood Mac. Not only was she a talented musician, but she was also an experienced singer/songwriter with some significant solo work under her belt.

If you’re a Fleetwood Mac fan but haven’t dipped into the individual members’ works outside of the band, you might not know about these stunning Christine McVie solo and non-Mac songs.

“When The Train Comes Back”

McVie was amazing at crafting pop-friendly songs for Fleetwood Mac throughout the 1970s, but her work as part of Chicken Shack was also pretty stellar in the late 1960s. “When The Train Comes Back” is one incredible cover she did with the blues rock band.

Despite being so young, McVie’s vocals have a gritty, smoky sound to them that is just addicting to hear. It’s kind of surprising that her pre-Fleetwood Mac band didn’t get very popular.

“Got A Hold On Me”

This Christine McVie solo work comes from her second solo album and was released in 1984. It’s one of McVie’s most successful works outside of Fleetwood Mac. “Got A Hold On Me” is a sweet, happy little love song that technically features part of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham contributed a guitar track to the recorded version.

“Feel About You”

“Feel About You” came about in 2017 a few years after McVie decided to come out of retirement and get back together with Fleetwood Mac.

This song is technically not a Fleetwood Mac song; it was a collaborative effort between McVie and Buckingham. In fact, the pair recorded an entire album together, and it’s quite an impressive late-career feat.

These two aren’t talked about much in the context of one another; both of them had their respective love affairs with other Fleetwood Mac members. Because of this, their chemistry with one another was often overlooked.

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Members of R.E.M., Black Crowes, and Screaming Trees Form Supergroup Silverlites, Unveil Debut Single

The group features R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin, and singer Joseph Arthur.

The band’s first single “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” is out now ahead of the November 15th release of its self-titled debut album.

The project features Arthur on lead vocals alongside R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on acoustic guitars, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson on acoustic and electric guitars, and Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season) on drums, upright bass, vibraphone, and backing vocals.

“Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” introduces the Silverlites’ roots-rock sound, as Arthur sings over organic instrumentation from Buck, Robinson, and Martin — the latter of whom recorded the initial acoustic guitar tracks in a Nashville hotel room in 2019.

We hope you like the songs, as we spent the pandemic years doing various recording and mixing sessions,” wrote Martin on Instagram, “and we used a classic songwriting form, which is often forgotten in this day and age. That is, acoustic guitars (with a little electric guitar in there), with superb lead vocals, catchy backing vocals, and a soulful backbeat in the rhythm section. It’s old school songwriting, just like us.”

Check out Silverlites’ new single “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” below:

https://bit.ly/405CzLf

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Martin Scorsese announces new @thebeatles documentary about how the Fab Four broke America

Film includes newly recorded interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The Beatles’ first visit to America will be released next month, it has been announced.

The Scorsese-produced Disney+ film Beatles ‘64 was directed by David Tedeschi and will stream exclusively from the online platform November 29, 2024.

It follows the moment the Fab Four touched down at Kennedy Airport in New York City on 7 February 1964, which led to Beatlemania sweeping the city and the rest of the US.

Footage will show their debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by a TV audience of more than 73 million, along with never-before-seen clips of the band and their legions of young fans.

Live performances from The Beatles’ first US concert at the Washington, DC Coliseum along with their Ed Sullivan appearances, have been “demixed” (where AI is used to separate the vocal and instrument stems in a recording) by Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films studio.

They were then remixed by Giles Martin, producer and son of “the Fifth Beatle”, the late producer, composer and arranger George Martin.

Surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who serve as co-producers, also appear in new filmed interviews to discuss their recollections of that historic time.

Other listed co-producers include John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, and George Harrison’s wife, Olivia Harrison.

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Neil Young’s most beautiful love song was about @jonimitchell and @officialgrahamnash’s broken heart

Since Joni Mitchell made her name in the 1960s, there have been over 50 songs written about the singer-songwriter. Most of them, it has to be said, were written by her ex-lovers.

But there was one other song written about Joni Mitchell, though not specifically written for her. No, this one was written for her ex-boyfriend Graham Nash, in a bid to mend his broken heart.

The former Hollies frontman Graham Nash came to know Mitchell through David Crosby and, after a brief romance with The Byrds singer, began dating the Blue singer.

The two shared a fast and furious relationship and considered one another soul mates for a period of time. In fact, Nash had a hand in writing 13 songs about Mitchell during his career. It’s clear he was devoted to Mitchell and completely in love, meaning when their relationship did finally end, Nash was left broken-hearted.

As a sure-fire way to help lift his friend and sometime bandmate out of the depths of heartbreak, Young decided to pen Nash a song of his own, about his long-lost love, the truly astounding ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart.’ Though many have suggested that the song was written about Stephen Stills, Young later admitted to the track being about Mitchell in his biography Shakey. However, he has never seen fit to elaborate on the stories at hand.

Recalling when Young wrote the song, Nash told Uncut: “That song means a lot to me because Neil wrote it about me and Joni. It’s such a beautiful song. I knew it was about me the day Neil played it for me at Stephen’s house in Laurel Canyon.”

He continued: “It’s a beautiful song and it was incredibly important for me to hear what Neil had said because he was dead right, it is only love that can break your heart.

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