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David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (who are sometimes augmented by Neil Young), and CPR. Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in The Byrds and CSN.

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David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for being a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y). Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in the Byrds and CSN. David Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles and the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, California, for the rest of his elementary school and junior high.[1] At Crane, he starred in HMS Pinafore and other musicals but was asked not to return due to lack of academic progress. He graduated from the Cate School, Carpinteria, California, completing his studies by correspondence. In 1960, his parents divorced and his father was remarried to Betty Christie Crosby. He also attended Santa Barbara City College.[2] Originally, he was a drama student, but he dropped out of drama school to pursue a career in music. He moved toward the same Greenwich Village scene (as a member of the Les Baxter`s Balladeers) Bob Dylan participated in, and even shared a mentor of Bob Dylan`s in a local scene favorite Fred Neil. With the help of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby cut his first solo session in 1963. Around the time of Crosby`s firing, he met a recently unemployed Stephen Stills at a party at the home of Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) in California in March 1968, and the two started meeting informally together and jamming. They were soon joined by Graham Nash, who left his commercially successful group The Hollies to play with Crosby and Stills. Remarkably, their appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 constituted their second live performance ever. Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash of 1969 was an immediate hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving key airplay on the new FM radio format, in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing entire albums at once. While in CSN, he wrote many important songs. These include "Guinnevere," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Long Time Gone," and "Delta". He also co-wrote "Wooden Ships" with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Stephen Stills. In 1969, Neil Young joined the group, and with him they recorded the album Déjà Vu, which went to number 1 on the charts. That same year, Crosby`s longtime girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in a car accident only days after Hinton, Crosby, and fellow girlfriend Debbie Donovan moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Crosby was devastated, and he began abusing drugs much more severely than he had before. Nevertheless, he still managed to contribute "Almost Cut My Hair" and the title track "Déjà Vu". After the release of the double live album Four Way Street, the group went on a temporary hiatus to focus on their respective solo careers. In December of 1969, David appeared with CSNY at the Altamont Free Concert hosted by The Rolling Stones, thus performing at all three of the iconic rock festivals of the 1960s, along with Monterey Pop and Woodstock. At the beginning of the new decade, he briefly did a stint with members from the Grateful Dead, performing together as "David and the Dorks," and making a live recording at the Matrix on December 15, 1970. CSNY reunited in 1973 at the Winterland in San Francisco. This served as a prelude to their highly successful stadium tour in the summer of 1974. Prior to the tour, the foursome attempted to record a new album entitled Human Highway. The recording session, which took place at Neil Young`s ranch, was very unpleasant, and marked by constant bickering. The bickering eventually became too much, and the album was cancelled. The 1974 tour was also full of constant bickering, though they managed to finish it without interruption. A greatest hits compilation entitled So Far was released during 1974 to capitalize on the foursome`s reunion tour. They made another attempt at a CSNY album in 1976. This ended bitterly as both Crosby & Nash and Stills & Young were under pressure from their respective duo`s record companies to release a new record prior to the competing tours. Stills & Young wound up deleting the Crosby & Nash vocals from their album "Long May You Run" and then embarking on the ill-fated Stills/Young Summer 1976 tour. CSNY would not perform together again as a foursome until Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985. Two albums followed, 1988`s American Dream and 2000`s Looking Forward. CSNY performed sporadically in the late 1980s and into the 1990s (mainly at Young`s annual Bridge School Benefit). However, CSN (without Young) reformed in 1977 and have toured and recorded since. Fullscale CSNY tours took place in 2000, 2002 and 2006.

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