Mark Interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411.com
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? I'm great. Good morning. Well, it's a sad, you know, time because |
| 0:05.4 | David Crosby passed away yesterday, and he was one of our great rock and roll stars from Crosby Stolt and |
| 0:11.7 | Nash and the birds. I'm sure you were a fan. Well, I wasn't the biggest. So many people are fans. |
| 0:18.3 | Listen, obviously he was great. And I'll give him credit for the way he drank and did whatever he did and all this |
| 0:23.9 | stuff. |
| 0:24.4 | For him to get to 81 is like a normal person getting to 101. |
| 0:28.3 | Well, you know, my sources say he died of COVID. |
| 0:32.6 | So it wasn't anything else that did it. |
| 0:35.9 | And maybe it was the comorbidities that he had he had a liver |
| 0:39.0 | transplant at one point um but you know he leaves an enormous legacy uh crosbie stills in ash |
| 0:46.9 | are just a beautiful sound in folk music and pop music uh they really changed things i remember |
| 0:53.2 | being a kid in 1969 and getting that first |
| 0:57.5 | Crosby stills in Nash album and just putting from the first note, you just went, oh my, what is this? |
| 1:03.5 | It's so wonderful. And before that, he had been with the birds. |
| 1:06.9 | Well, no, wait. Wasn't he the founder of both groups? |
| 1:10.5 | Founder of both groups. |
| 1:12.2 | And he, with the birds, made Bob Dylan really a commercial star by recording Mr. |
| 1:19.5 | Tambourine Man. |
| 1:20.5 | Because up to that point, Bob Dylan was a folk singer. |
| 1:23.6 | He was very admired. |
| 1:25.4 | But Mr. Tambourine Man crossed him over onto pop radio, and that changed everything for everybody. |
| 1:32.7 | And that was really because of David Cosby. |
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