The photo for the cover of the long lost Neil Young album Time Fades Away was taken by Joel Bernstein at the Philadelphia Spectrum on either January 26 or 27, 1973, during a three-month, 65-date tour of America. Bernstein provided the cover shots for a number of Young’s records, including After The Gold Rush, Rust Never Sleeps, and Weld, as well as albums by Bob Dylan (Live At Budokan), Tom Petty (Hard Promises), Joni Mitchell (Hejira) and many others. This particular album has long been out of print, because as Young has said, “The whole tour was a nervous experience.” But perhaps as well as any other photograph, Bernstein’s cover art captures the muggy anticipation of an audience waiting to be taken higher…
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