David Crosby: "I can't make a living from music anymore"

2021-10-11T10:45:35.543Z

SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - At 80, the West Coast hero is releasing a new album called For Free, recorded with his son James Raymond.

By Ernesto Assante (La Repubblica)

“I've almost died many times, but I'm still here.

David Crosby celebrates his 80th birthday (he had them on August 14th), celebrates the 50th anniversary of his legendary first solo album,

If I Could Only Remember My Name

, released in 1971, and releases a new album,

For Free

, dedicated to Joni Mitchell and whose cover was designed by Joan Baez.

This is his fifth album in seven years.

Read alsoWhen America vibrated to the beat of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Not bad for an artist who already topped the charts with

Bob Dylan's

Byrds and

Mr. Tambourine Man

in 1964, who made history with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash by taking the Woodstock stage in 1969. and who dominated the charts and filled the stadiums with these same acolytes, joined by Neil Young, in the 1970s. Performances all the more remarkable since we know that this man, who wrote some of the greatest songs from popular music history, was addicted to hard drugs and alcohol, had a transplant

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