Crosby Stills Nash......& sometimes Young

Crosby Stills Nash......& sometimes Young

Composing a biography about Crosby Stills Nash (and sometimes Young)

founding fathers in the history of Rock - is a huge undertaking.

Consider: these are four musicians who started out in the Sixties, became a super-group in the Seventies,

survived the Eighties, experienced a rebirth in the Nineties, embarked upon the first major American tour

of the 21st century and forty years on, are still seeking out their muses...

Successful and famous in their own right even prior to their ground-breaking eponymous debut album of 1969,

this no-holds barred account meticulously explores the lives, times and careers – good, bad and ugly –

of three (occasionally four) of rock’s most enduring superstars from their earliest beginnings right up to the present day.

Their influences… early bands… big breaks… Woodstock… superstardom… gruelling tours…

stadiums… million sellers… girlfriends… conflicts… excesses… egos… abandoned albums…

break-ups… reunions with Neil Young… flops… personal tragedies… drugs…
...and there's always the music:

nearly four decades of the most harmonious, gorgeous and beautifully crafted music that there's ever been.

The set is enriched by many first-hand anecdotes and memories contributed by musicians, producers, managers,

photographers, CSN associates, fans and by members of "The Lee-Shore" and "Rust", two CSN&Y web-based mailing-list.

The authors conducted a number of exclusive and candid interviews with musicians and associates of CSN, including:

Au Go Go Singers

Richie Furay, Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, Kathy King

Les Baxter’s Balladeers

Bobby Ingram

Buffalo Springfield

Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer

Byrds

Chris Hillman

Hollies

Allan Clarke, Bobby Elliott, Tony Hicks, Terry Sylvester

Manassas

Chris Hillman, Joe Lala, Al Perkins, Dallas Taylor

CSN band members

Mark “Slick” Aguilar, Craig Doerge, Mike Finnigan, James “Hutch” Hutchinson,

Russel Kunkel, David Lindley, George "Chocolate" Perry,

Alexis Sklarevski, Joe Vitale, Ian Wallace

CPR

Jeff Pevar, James Raymond

CSN camp (managers, producers, engineers, etc.)

Stephen Barncard, Joel Bernstein, Rance Caldwell, Paul Dieter, Barry Friedman,

John Gonzales, Don Gooch, Glenn Goodwin, Bill Halverson,

Stanley "L.A." Johnson, Jim Seiter, Ken Weiss

Friends, family and other musicians

Laura Allan, Sam Andrew (Big Brother & The Holding Company), John E. Brown, Jackson Browne, George Bunnell,

Tom Campbell (Avocado Productions), Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), Bruce Cockburn, Jan Crosby,

Henry Diltz (photographer), Donovan, Bruce Farwell (Bitter End Singers), Steven Fromholz,

Steve Gillette, Madeline Golter, Andrew Gold, Tom O'Neal,

John Hall, Bill Henderson (The Collectors), Judy Henske, Randy Holden (Blue Cheer) , Jac Holzman, Rickie Lee Jones,

Ed King (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd), Kipp & Pat Lennon (Venice), Kenny Loggins, Country Joe McDonald,

Debbie Meister (CSN management, Avocado Productions),

Essra Mohawk, Mark Naftalin (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band), Elaine Nash (Graham’s sister),

Graham Parker, Van Dyke Parks, Simon Posthuma (Seemon & Marijke),

Charles John Quarto, Tim Rose (The Big Three), Tom Ross, J.A. Scarrit, John Sebastian, Chris Stills, Skip Taylor,

James Taylor, Jack Tempchin, Bob Vogt, Ian Whitcomb,

Nurit Wilde (Greene & Stone management, photographer), Charlie Wine

and

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash

themselves!

The three volumes feature work contributed by

California-rock photographer extraordinaire Henry Diltz, top "Brit pop" photographer Harry Goodwin,

famous 60’s photographer Nurit Wilde, Tom O'neal (Déjà Vu cover photo)

as well as photos by Ian Astle, Roger Barone, Mike Curcuru, Tom Davis, Leslie Mixon,

A. Marc Shamblin, David Tulsky, and many others.

Please follow the links on this page to see some previews of “Crosby Stills Nash…and sometimes Young”.

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