Bob Dylan and Neil Young share the stage at Hyde Park

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Bob Dylan and Neil Young co-directed a UK concert for the first time as the sun set on London's Hyde Park on Friday.

"I've never played in broad daylight before," joked Young, who went first on stage, adding "it's a pleasure to see everyone!"

The event, which was originally announced as part of the BST series presented by Barclaycard, took place in the form of a solo concert without sponsorship.

It was after he refused to perform at a festival named after what he called "an entity that finances fossil fuels".

• Neil Young says the Hyde Park show will run without Barclaycard as a sponsor

On the site, fans applauded Young's decision to withdraw to make an environmental point. A fan told the BBC: "If an old rocker wants to make his way and hit people in the business world, that's fine, why not?"

Another agreed, saying, "If that's what he's promoting and that he's against, then it's the people who have to do it – the people with a platform."

"It's the way forward, we have to be greener," added a third fan.

However, they all said that they would not have supported the post completely removed for the same reason.

"We could have a refund!"

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Young, one of Woodstock's original hippy stars, walked around the stage with a smile and tied up her old black and ripped Les Paul guitar. The strap of the guitar itself is adorned with the Ban the Bomb Peace logo, while a bird is hovering above his head and a sign of love is displayed over his amp.

The first historic gathering of two of the greatest rock protest singers on British soil took place on the same day as many other green-minded music stars, such as Radiohead, Foals and Hot Chip, have called on the government to take action to combat climate change.

The 73-year-old was forced to abandon a series of concerts in the UK in 2013 due to an injury to one of his Crazy Horse band colleagues, but this time He was supported by The Promise of the Real, with Willie Nelson's son, Lukas.

Their very tight rhythmic jam allowed the guitarist to show that he could still get rid of old favorites such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Alabama – which was perceived as a song "diss" by South American rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, who responded directly to Young in the lyrics of their 1973 hit, Sweet Home Alabama.

The acoustic guitar and harmonica came out alive for an interpretation of Heart of Gold. The singer-songwriter confirmed at the end of last year that his search for one of these films was over after marrying actress Daryl Hannah.

The first big set of the evening ended with Rockin's long appearance in the free world, before Young and his band came back for a reminder including the highlight of their set: a hypnotic version of Like a Hurricane.

Young and his hero Dylan had already played together on stage in 1992, alongside Eric Clapton and Johnny Cash, at a concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of American music and before at the last concert of their friends The Band in 1976. Captured on film by Martin Scorsese in The Last Waltz.

Rumors were whispering around Hype Park that this could happen again during the filming of Dylan, but alas, that did not have to be.

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Anyone who has seen Rolling Thunder Venue, the semi-fiction film from Scorsese's Dylan tour, will testify: The 10 Grammy winner has kept fans and band members aloof throughout his career and this concert was no different.

Dylan walked unannounced, sat down at the piano with a smile and rushed into Ballad of a Thin Man from his 1965 flagship album, Highway 61 Revisited.

While Young had deciphered a series of concert versions of his songs, Dylan – who no longer seems to play the guitar – reworked many of his hits in different tones and melodies. Part of the fun and challenge of seeing him play in 2019 lies in the good piece before your neighbor – as I managed to rework it, it's not me, babe.

All of this prevented a real mbad from singing very early as the crowd – including Jarvis Cocker and Jake Bugg – watched a delighted Dylan repainting his masterpieces live, rising several times to hit Elvis Presley. -esque pose in the center of the stage. But at the beginning of his clbadic at half-time, Like a Rolling Stone, most bettors had gained the confidence to harmonize together the original vocal melody of the 1965 hit, as a giant chorus behind the singer's offbeat performance.

Nowadays, the 78-year-old's more serious voice seems to match blue numbers like the Highway 61 Revisited song rather than ballads, though his heartfelt efforts on To Make You Feel My Love remind us all of why the pop star London's Adele chose to cover it.

After a long day of music in the sun, large parts of the crowd began to lose interest as Dylan embarked on a career hat trick of melodies, although he soon recovered with An optimist, you've got somebody's Gotta Serve, followed by an alternative bis to Blowin's in the Wind and the awesome title. You have to laugh a lot, it takes a train to cry.

Dylan's traveling photographer Wilburys, Tom Petty, played his last concert in the UK on the same stage two years earlier. Despite the many problems with wind in festivals this summer, Hyde Park seems to have really nailed its outdoor sound system.

Barclaycard resumes taking possession of the summer at Hyde Park this weekend with performances of Florence + the Machine, The National and Robbie Williams. Let's just hope they're waiting for Neil Young to be off site before these posters go back up.

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