Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, David Browne
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, David Browne
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

Author: David Browne

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Unabridged: 21 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 04/02/2019


Synopsis

The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne
"Riveting." -People Magazine

"This is one of the great rock and roll stories." -New York Times Book Review



Even in the larger-than-life world of rock and roll, it was hard to imagine four more different men. Yet few groups were as in sync with their times as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Starting with the original trio's landmark 1969 debut album, their group and individual songs-"Wooden Ships," "Ohio," "For What It's Worth" (with Stills and Young's Buffalo Springfield)-became the soundtrack of a generation. But their story would rarely be as harmonious as their legendary vocal blend. Over the decades, these four men would continually break up, reunite, and disband again-all against a backdrop of social and musical change, recurring disagreements, and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to cripple them as a group and as individuals.

In Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup, Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne presents the ultimate deep diveinto rock and roll's most musical and turbulent brotherhood. Featuring exclusive interviewswith band members, colleagues, fellow superstars, former managers, employees,and lovers-and with access to unreleased music and documents-this is the sweepingstory of rock's longest-running, most dysfunctional, yet pre-eminent musical family,delivered with the epic feel their story rightly deserves.



Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on July 05, 2019

I thought I was pretty interested in CSNY. But about halfway through this book when I was reading an account of the approximately 37th different time the group was either breaking apart, coming back together, about to break apart or come back together, or thinking about breaking apart or coming back......more

Goodreads review by TMcB on June 05, 2019

My first reaction to this book was: David Crosby makes Keith Richards look like a Sunday school teacher. Other reactions? I knew Neil Young was enigmatic in regard to his relationship with the other three, but didn’t realize he became a total control freak in their post-70’s reunions. Yes, that’s pl......more

Goodreads review by John on April 13, 2019

This is not a wild saga. It is a chronicle of unbelievable waste -- wasted talent, friendships, money....you name it.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 30, 2019

Get awfully repetitive. They get together to make money, Neil bails or David gets too high, everyone fights.......more


Quotes

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, "BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE SUMMER"
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, "TOP PICK"
FORBES, "COOLEST CALIFORNIA GIFTS FOR DAD!"

"The interwoven tale of four of the rock and roll era's most beloved, influential, and controversial stars, David Browne's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Younghas it all: the great songs, the terrible feuds, the drugs, the love, the money, the damage done, and the spark that never quite dies. A clear-eyed portrait not just of four singer-songwriters but of the rise, triumph, and collapse of their generation's idealistic youth. Smart, poetic, and probing, the book is a revelation."—Peter Ames Carlin, author of Bruce and Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon

"Few rock and roll sagas are as genuinely epic as this one, in which, over nearly five decades, four enormous talents/egos come together, find musical perfection, and fall apart in seemingly unlimited ways. With unparalleled skill and wry insight, David Browne chases down the details of CSNY's unique collaboration, uncovering larger truths about creativity and collaboration, debauchery and recovery, and a generation's harmonizing heart."—Ann Powers, author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

"The long, tangled, thorny story of CSNY requires a writer of David Browne's immense skill to unravel, and he delivers beautifully. Sympathetic without being fawning, as astute a critic as he is a conscientious reporter, Browne chronicles the lives and music of these four iconic artists with unfailing intelligence, humor, and grace. This is a riveting read from beginning to what may or may not be the end of this fascinating band."—Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life

"A vivacious journey into a collision of four oversized egos-three of them producing a harmony as strange and inspired as any in rock and roll, a fourth achieving work of such strange and stunning genius that the world has yet to catch up. Beneath those harmonies was much clangor and static, even more than we knew, and Browne captures it all in this magnificent and definitive book."—David Yaffe, author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

"[Browne] appears to have talked to nearly every living soul with a part to play in the band's long career. . . . An excellent portrait of a troubled partnership ... celebrates those fine moments when the band merged to make such epochal songs as 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' and 'Ohio.'"—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[An] ultimate deep dive into rock and roll's most musical and turbulent supergroup."—Werd.com

"Riveting."—People Magazine

"[Written with a] sharp eye and even hand... [this] isn't the first book on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and it won't be the last, but it's certainly the best."—No Recess

"Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is for music lovers, but it should also be required reading for students of group dynamics."—Washington Post