![]() ![]() Tambourine Man” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!”), but more importantly, fused rock with folk influences to create a sound that could still be heard decades later in artists like Tom Petty and R.E.M.(“If the Beatles legitimized rock ‘n’ roll’s form, the Byrds legitimated its content,” journalist Geoffrey Stokes wrote in 1980).Īfter splitting from the Byrds, Crosby teamed with Stephen Stills in 1968 (who had previously been in the Buffalo Springfield) and British singer Graham Nash (of the Hollies) to form Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN). Uniquely recognizable by his heavy frame, long hair, and wooly mustache – a look he rarely altered in fifty-five years – Crosby would become infamous for his nearly-fatal personal problems, but never enough to overshadow the music that he helped to create.īorn the son of Oscar-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, Los Angeles native David Crosby got his start in the early ’60s folk music scene before co-founding the Byrds in 1964. Remembering David Crosby: The Classic Rock Crooner who beat all the oddsĭavid Crosby, the singer, musician, and songwriter best known for being the first name in long-running rock supergroups: Crosby Stills & Nash and Crosby Still Nash & Young, died on January 18th at age eighty-one.
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