David Crosby, legendary singer and songwriter, dead at 81

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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David Crosby, one of the founding members of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, has died at 81. A family spokesperson said “although he is no longer here with us, his humanity and kind soul will continue to guide and inspire us.” Ron Brownstein is the author of "Rock Me on the Water: 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics." He joins AC360 to talk about Crosby’s legacy and career as a singer and songwriter.

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0:00.0	Good evening, but a sad one.
0:02.5	David Crosby has died.
0:03.8	He was a founding member of the birds.
0:05.3	Crosby sills a Nash and Crosby stills Nash and Young.
0:08.1	A legendary songwriter with a voice that somehow managed all at once to be of his era and
0:12.9	for the ages.
0:42.5	David Crosby was Steven Stills and Graham Nash at Woodstock.
0:48.4	Only their second concert as a trio stills famously telling the crowd there how scared
0:53.1	they were.
0:54.1	For most of his 81 years though, his musical partner Crosby seemed fearless and tireless
0:58.4	in a life that was at times as turbulent as his music was soothing and quietly brilliant.
1:03.9	Randike has more.
1:07.0	He helped shape the sound of 1960s folk rock as a founding member of the birds, but David
1:12.5	Crosby will always be best known as a founding member of Crosby stills and Nash.
1:17.7	The wildly popular group was made up of Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Nash.
1:23.1	Their sound distinctive for its melody and harmonies.
1:33.0	In the midst of the late 60s Laurel Kenyon scene in California, their debut album went
1:38.0	multi-platinum.
1:39.0	It's an absolute joy.
1:40.0	It's what I was born to do.
1:42.0	I love it.
1:44.0	When anything is at my family, it's the most fun you can have.
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