We heard about it on the radio, we didn't believe it.

And Neil and I were out driving around in one of his woodies,

and we went over to this friend's house.

A friend came back from the store with a magazine,

with a girl kneeling over the dead kid.

And I watched it hit Neil.

He opened the magazine and looked at this thing,

hit him in the heart.

And I watched him right, Ohio, right there.

And I remember calling Nash and saying, hey, you get a studio right now.

We need a studio right now.

Crosby telling me that he saw Neil's face.

He saw Neil go off into the woods.

Neil came back an hour later and played him Ohio. Crosby called me in Stephen Who, we were in Los Angeles at the woods. Neil came back an hour later and played in Ohio. Crosby called me and Steven

who, we were in Los Angeles at the time. He said, Neil has written this song, you're not going to

believe it. We've got to get in the studio right away. Stephen and I put the record plant here

in Hollywood. Neil and David came down. We went into the studio, we cut Ohio. We're finally on our own.

This summer I hear the drumming for dead in Ohio.

We cut the B-side, find the cost of freedom.

Amit Erdogan, who was the president of Atlantic at that time, was at the session. We gave him the master, he took it back to New York. That single was out on the street in 10 days. We killed our own single of teacher children, which was my song. And we didn't care. We didn't care about any of those rules. We didn't care about the record company saying, listen, you don't do this let teach your children get up there do its thing and then you know a

couple months later bring it out what we wanted to do was bring it out instantly

now we were angry now the kids were angry now we wanted to speak and scream

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