David Crosby has died at 81. The singer-songwriter performed songs that symbolized peace, love and political engagement in the 1960s, including “Eight Miles High” and “Teach Your Children.” But his drug use and arrests made him a cautionary symbol.
Few groups were as well suited to their time as CSNY, embodying both the laid-back dreaminess and the pent-up social anger of the period.
“They believed in me, and I let them down,” Mr. Crosby told the Toronto Star in 1989. “I became a junkie sleazebag, a criminal, paranoid fool. I didn’t take care of anything — not my friends, not my music, not myself.” For 15 years, he didn’t have so much as a beer. He later began to smoke marijuana again, angering some sobriety advocates.
Back in Los Angeles, he met Stills and Nash at either Mitchell’s home or that of Cass Elliot, the lead singer of the Mamas & the Papas. Accounts differ on where they met, but Mr. Crosby, Stills and Nash spontaneously began singing together and made plans to form a group.“The reason we used our own names when we started the band was because we also wanted to pursue individual careers as well,” Mr. Crosby told the Los Angeles Times in 1994.
Mr. Crosby received a liver transplant in 1994 and, at various times, dealt with heart ailments, hepatitis, diabetes, a motorcycle crash and a house lost to an earthquake. In the late 1990s, he formed a band named CPR — not as a comment on his physical condition but for the primary band members: Mr. Crosby, Jeff Pevar and James Raymond.his biological father.
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