Sweet dreams, Brian Wilson. The world is already a lonelier place without him, after the news of his death on Wednesday, the week before his 83rd birthday. For the ultimate poet of summer, it’s fitting that he left the planet in June, right where he came in — the California …
Read More »Steve Silberman Has Died. His Work on the Grateful Dead and David Crosby Is Eternal
Like many of my fellow writers, journalists, and music lovers, I spent many hours on the phone or emailing with Steve Silberman, the acclaimed science writer, passionate Grateful Dead and David Crosby fan, and all-around mensch who died of natural causes on Aug. 28 at age 66. His husband, Keith …
Read More »Meet the Drummer Who Spent Decades With David Gilmour and David Crosby — And a Day With Bowie
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »David Crosby's Band Says the Singer Wanted to Make Peace with CSNY
On Jan. 17, keyboard player James Raymond suddenly felt the urge to check in with his once long-lost father and now-collaborator David Crosby. He knew Crosby had already dealt with one bout of Covid, but he held out hope. In roughly a month, they would be back onstage together for …
Read More »David Crosby's Final Band Details Tribute Show
David Crosby’s final band will reconvene later this summer for a special concert honoring the folk rock legend, who died back in January. The show is both a tribute, as well as a make-up show of sorts: Crosby was originally scheduled to perform a set of Crosby, Stills, Nash & …
Read More »Graham Nash Says David Crosby Died During Covid-19 Bout
Graham Nash has revealed in a new interview that David Crosby died during a bout with Covid-19. At the time of the Crosby, Stills and Nash singer’s Jan. 19 death, his family said in a statement that Crosby definitely following a “long illness,” though no exact cause of death was …
Read More »'If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter': David Crosby's Final Words of Wisdom
The idea of making David Crosby our new advice columnist started as a joke around the Rolling Stone office. Croz was the first to admit that he lived a rather imperfect life, making many catastrophic decisions along the way. “If there was a way to go wrong possible, I did,” …
Read More »Stephen Stills Remembers David Crosby: 'He Was a Big Force in My Life and a Towering Musician'
Stephen Stills and David Crosby didn’t always see eye to eye throughout the long history of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. But they were on good terms during the final years of Crosby’s life and even had plans to see each other shortly before Crosby died. “When you’re young, if …
Read More »'I Count Myself Hugely Lucky': David Crosby Looks Back in Unheard Interview Audio
“I count myself hugely lucky in life, for all the people that I’ve gotten to make music with,” David Crosby tells Andy Greene in never-before-heard interview audio. “I’ve gotten to make music with some stunningly talented people.” Excerpts from two of Greene’s final interviews with Crosby, who died last week …
Read More »There Was a Little Part of David Crosby in All of Us, Whether We Knew It or Not
In my many years of seeing live music, few sights were as dispiriting as the first time I saw David Crosby up close. In the early Eighties, he played a solo show at New York’s Town Hall. Walking onstage, looking a little overweight, unkempt and shaggy in an untucked shirt …
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