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Neil Young to Perform Lost ‘Cortez The Killer’ Verses on Summer Tour With Crazy Horse

Neil Young opened up about his upcoming summer tour with Crazy Horse, a 1969 CSNY live box, and plans for his next two 'Archives' box sets.

When Neil Younghits the road this summer with Crazy Horse, he’s planning on performing “Cortez The Killer” with verses that have been missing from the song for 50 years. “So what we did was take the master tape and find ways to cut it together so that it would work, but we lost a couple of verses. In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro recalled cutting “Cortez The Killer” shortly after he joined the band.

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