Bob Dylan and Neil Young review – age has not withered them
Hyde Park, London
Young rages over sponsorship, Dylan mangles his back catalogue, but both leave the stage smiling
It was billed as a “historic event” in which two of rock’s towering icons performed a co-headlining show for the first time in Britain, heralded with a short video compilation of vintage clips of Bob Dylan and Neil Young performing live over the years, tracing their twin careers through decades of unpredictable shifts and changes.
Should the organisers of Hyde Park’s one-day festivals British Summer Time have assumed said unpredictability was now a thing of a past – Dylan and Young are now 78 and 73 respectively, ages at which one might reasonably expect even the hottest-burning firebrand to have settled down a bit – they were in for a rude awakening.