In memory of David Crosby | MON | 01/23/2023 | 17:30

January 23, 2023, 5:30 p.m

In 1964 David Crosby started his first career with the Byrds, for whom he wrote hits like “Eight Miles High”. Just four years later he met Stephen Stills by chance at a party. From then on they met regularly in private to jam together. Graham Nash soon joined them. No sooner had the trio performed in front of an audience than they were brought onto the Woodstock stage for their second live performance – in August 1969.

For this legendary concert, they brought in Neil Young to be instrumentally more effective. One of the great supergroups in pop music history was born. It was also the time Crosby fell in love with young singer Joni Mitchell and produced her first album. David Crosby’s life was accompanied by alcohol and drugs, the dark side of a great career, which he describes impressively in his biography “Long Time Gone”, published in 1989.

David Crosby passed away a few days ago at the age of 81 following a long illness.

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