David Crosby

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Crosby, Stills & Mash press picture, 1970
How an acid-tinged account of a North African adventure became the sound of the counterculture

By Rob Hughes Published

With 60s pop music going psychedelic, Morocco's hippie trail inspired a song that took three years to come to fruition

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David Crosby performing onstage in 1974 and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford performing in 1983
David Crosby was not happy about being followed by Judas Priest at Live Aid: “Some heavy metal garbage”

By Classic Rock Published

Live Aid was 40 years ago this month – but not everyone was down with some of the bands

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David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name
“Manifesting grief too terrible for words”: David Crosby’s solo debut carries prog credentials

By Sid Smith Published

If I Could Only Remember My Name, created during a challenging time in the folk rock icon’s life, demonstrated joy in artistic freedom as he pushed boundaries to prove his uniqueness

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David Crosby posing for the camera in 1976
“The 80s? A lot of hard drugs, cocaine, heroin, people dying”: the epic life and times of David Crosby

By Kevin Murphy Published

In 2007, Classic Rock challenged the legendary David Crosby to an epic game of word association. Cue tales of women, drugs, prison, liver transplants and ex-bandmates

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David Crosby in 2018
“I don’t filter my opinions. I filter whether I’m being kind or not”: how David Crosby turned into a master of the Twitter putdown in his final years

By Niall Doherty Published

The iconic singer-songwriter had no problems dishing it out if he felt like his targets deserved it

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Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young & Tom Jones perform on This Is Tom Jones
The night the revolution went mainstream: When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young became Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young & Tom Jones

By Fraser Lewry Published

Watch Tom Jones lead Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young through a historic TV performance of the revolutionary anthem Long Time Gone

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David Crosby in 1976
David Crosby: celebrating the life of a quick-witted, acid-tongued raconteur and troublemaker with the voice of an angel

By Simon Harper Published

A look back at the life and times of the man who, with The Byrds, CSN, CSN&Y and solo, wrote and recorded a soundtrack to a golden era

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A portrait photograph of David Crosby in the 1970s
“Christine had been killed. The studio was somewhere I could go where I’d feel something other than lost”: how David Crosby turned grief into hazy magic on his solo masterpiece If I Could Only Remember My Name

By Rob Hughes Published

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Graham Nash and David Crosby onstage in 2014
“I waited for the call from David but it never came. Two days later he was dead”: Graham Nash and David Crosby were on the verge of reconciling earlier this year

By Classic Rock Published

Graham Nash reveals he came close to patching up his friendship with former Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby days before before Crosby’s death

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David Crosby wearing a white knitted jumper
David Crosby: A counterculture legend to the end

By Hannah May Kilroy Published

A personal tribute: The late David Crosby may have battled demons on earth, but his voice was a route to the heavens

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