Artists can be hard to work with and genius can be intolerable. This is the life of superstar David Crosby. While helping drive Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young through the difficult 60s, David himself was difficult. Recently, fellow bandmates admitted that he treated them poorly, and they have no interest in any talk of reunions.
David Crosby has plans to release two new solo albums in 2016, with collaborations from Snarky Puppy member Michael League. David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born in 1941 in Los Angles, dropping out of Santa Barbara City College with a chancy move to Greenwich Village to be part of the music scene.
David influenced a young Bob Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) and later helped form the Byrds before his temperament caused a band re-shuffle, leaving him out on his own. He met an unemployed Steven Stills at a party, quickly forming a band that would grow into one of the most influential bands from the 60s.
David has had a long and celebrated addition to drugs and alcohol and trouble along the way. Being arrested many times before turning to a safer life course. In 1994, he received a liver transplant (paid for by Phil Collins) and has Type 2 Diabetes. He is the biological father of a child with Melissa Etheridge, and unfortunately his brother Ethan committed suicide in 1998.
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