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For anyone making rock music, surely by now it\u2019s impossible to escape the impact of The Rolling Stones<\/a>. Their legacy looms large, almost too large to even begin to try and quantify. But even if a person isn\u2019t directly inspired by Mick Jagger and Co, likely one of their other idols was.<\/p>\n Neil Young certainly was, as he\u2019s routinely dedicated time throughout his own lengthy and powerful career to heap praise on the Stones. For fans, the band\u2019s resilience and never-ending enthusiasm are a treat. It keeps them out and about, meaning even younger fans get a chance to see them live<\/a> as Jagger is still swaggering about to stage. But for other musicians, that endurance is a triumph and a feat, it\u2019s incredibly impressive and even Jagger\u2019s slightly younger peers look at him and likely think \u2018how does he have the energy for that?\u2019<\/p>\n Young is only a few years younger than Jagger but he definitely thinks so. While he himself has also had a career that\u2019s never stopped or slowed, especially in recent years as he\u2019s been touring more and more, the Stones felt like a blueprint for that. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Rolling Stones, now there was something, because they kept going. They didn\u2019t just last for five years,\u201d Young said. While he bounced between different groups in his younger years, the fact that the Stones formed early and stuck together impresses him as he continued, \u201cIt took them longer to make a great contribution. The Beatles made their contribution in about five years, bang, gone\u2014right? The Rolling Stones came out with \u2018Miss You\u2019 way after, years after the Beatles broke up.\u201d <\/p>\n Impressed by their drive to keep at it and keep evolving, he added, \u201cWhen you think of the Rolling Stones, that\u2019s one of their best things, that Some Girls album<\/a>\u2014 and that\u2019s with Ron Wood, y\u2019know. They\u2019d gone through a lot of changes.\u201d<\/p>\n The band\u2019s endurance also means that they\u2019ve been a consistent feature in the lives of Young and the wider musical sphere. They\u2019ve always been present and providing inspiration that Young was keen to lap up, especially during the Buffalo Springfield days on \u2018Mr Soul\u2019 but there was another track where he calls it out by name.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m singin\u2019 this borrowed tune. I took from the Rolling Stones. Alone in this empty room. Too wasted to write my own,\u201d he sings on \u2018Borrowed Tune\u2019 as he rips the whole melody from the Stones\u2019 \u2018Lady Jane\u2019. <\/p>\n It came to him in a moment of panic on stage as later described the track as \u201ca song I had written at the beginning of the Time Fades Away tour reflecting on whether a big stadium tour was right for me.\u201d He\u2019d included the Stones song as part of the setlist but slipped up, explaining, I played \u2018Lady Jane\u2019 and forgot the chords. I started playing my own chords, it started sounding better to me, so I kept playing that. It just turned into another song.\u201d<\/p>\n