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David Crosby, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer<\/em>, died on January 18, 2023, after a long illness.\u00a0 He was 81.<\/p>\n Mr. Crosby was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/em> for his work with the Byrds<\/em> and Crosby, Stills & Nash<\/em>.\u00a0 His music is on five of Rolling Stone’s<\/em> list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n David Crosby dropped out of college to pursue a career in music.\u00a0 Before joining the Byrds<\/em>, Mr. Crosby performed with\u00a0 Terry Callier and later with Les Baxter’s Balladeers<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 1964, David Crosby joined the Byrds<\/em> and a year later they had their first #1 hit with Mr. Tambourine Man<\/em>.\u00a0 This was followed up by Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)<\/em>\u00a0which also peaked at #1,\u00a0 David Crosby stayed with the Byrds<\/em> until 1967.\u00a0 In 1973, he reteamed with them for the album Byrds<\/em> which he also produced.<\/p>\n In 1968, David Crosby met Stephen Stills and they began playing together informally.\u00a0 Graham Nash of The Hollies<\/em> joined the duo and soon they formed Cosby, Stills and Nash<\/em>.\u00a0 When the group played at Woodstock, it was only their second live performance!\u00a0 Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash<\/em> was a hit.\u00a0 In 1969, Neil Young joined the group which retitled itself as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young<\/em>.\u00a0 Throughout the rest of his career, David Crosby would play with variations of CSN&Y<\/em>, perform solo, as well as work as a session musician providing background vocals for folks like Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Carole King, Elton John and Phil Collins (just to name a few). In 1996, Mr. Crosby created CPR<\/em>, a band consisting of himself, Jeff Pevar, and Crosby’s son, James Raymond.<\/p>\n Some of David Crosby’s hits include: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)<\/em> which peaked at #1 (with the Byrds<\/em>); Mr. Tambourine Man<\/em> peaked at #1 (the Byrds<\/em>); Wasted on the Way<\/em> reached #9 (CS&N<\/em>); Just a Song Before I Go<\/em> hit #7 (CS&N<\/em>); Woodstock<\/em> reached #11 (CSN&Y<\/em>); Southern Cross<\/em> peaked at #18 (CS&N<\/em>); Teach Your Children<\/em> reached #16 (CSN&Y<\/em>); Suite: Judy Blue Eyes<\/em> hit #21 (CS&N<\/em>); Ohio<\/em> reached #14 (CSN&Y<\/em>); Marrakesh<\/em> Express<\/em> topped at #28 (CS&N<\/em>).<\/p>\n David Crosby never lost his youthful love of fun.\u00a0 He always seemed like a younger man in an older man’s body.\u00a0 Some of my favorite songs by him include Mr. Tambourine Man<\/em>, Just a Song Before I Go<\/em> and Teach Your Children<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s interesting that I had forgotten the names of some of his songs, but once they started playing I knew the words and enjoyed them all over again.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to David Crosby’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Crosby, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on January 18, 2023, after a long illness.\u00a0 He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31584,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions\/31584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}