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David Crosby at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles (in 2020)
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US rock veteran David Crosby is dead, according to media reports. The US magazine Variety reported on Thursday, citing Crosby's wife, that the co-founder of the bands The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was 81 after a long illness died.
The music magazine "Rolling Stone" also reported on the death of the legendary musician.
Born in California in 1941, Crosby was a founding member of the band The Byrds in the 1960s, with whom he recorded the hits »Mr.
Tambourine Man” and “Turn Turn Turn”.
In 1968 he founded the group Crosby, Stills and Nash with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, which had an unforgettable performance at the Woodstock Music Festival a year later and is known for hits like »Marrakesh Express«.
Along with Neil Young, the band also went under the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young name.
Crosby also recorded several solo albums.
Twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his artistic achievements, Crosby also made headlines for his extravagant lifestyle.
In the 1980s he spent several months in prison for possession of cocaine and weapons.
In 1994 he underwent a liver transplant - the organ had been weakened by decades of consumption of drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
"I don't know why I'm still alive when Jimi (Hendrix) and Janis (Joplin) aren't," he told Rolling Stone magazine in a 2014 interview.
"I was lucky."
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