Crosby, who defined the smooth side of the Woodstock generation\u0027s music, was inducted into the Rock \u0026 Roll Hall of Fame as a member of both groups
“It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David Crosby has passed away” Variety quoted his wife, Jan Dance, as saying in the statement.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
Personally, Crosby was the embodiment of the credo “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” and a 2014 Rolling Stone magazine article tagged him “rock’s unlikeliest survivor.” Crosby fathered six children – two as a sperm donor to rocker Melissa Etheridge’s partner and another who was placed for adoption at birth and did not meet Crosby until he was in his 30s. That son, James Raymond, would eventually become his musical collaborator.Article content
David Crosby, left, with Neil Young during a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young show in Toronto, March 30, 2000.As a teenager, Crosby found that one of his passions aided him in the pursuit of another. “It was absolutely joyous to me,” he wrote. “I always loved it. I always will love it. And I did get laid.”Article content
Guitarist and singer/songwriter Young fell in with them that year and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young came to be considered one of the greatest amalgams of talent in rock history. The next decade was a blur of drug arrests, album releases and women. “I was not into being monogamous – I made that plain to everybody concerned. I was a complete and utter pleasure-seeking sybarite,” he wrote in his autobiography.Article content
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