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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: American Dream
Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, December 1988
It has been suggested that this LP is the result of the compassion of Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Neil Young–a bid to keep their ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Auburn, Washington, July 27th 2006
Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, 15 August 2006
"Do you think there are any Republicans here?" We are on the queue for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Freedom of Speech show, and the ...
Audio interviews
Interview by James Johnson, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1981
The sweet-voiced Mancunian on his relationship with the Hollies and their reunion; meeting Stills and Crosby and the start of that whole thing; his relationship with Joni Mitchell, and his new healthy lifestyle!
File format: mp3; file size: 17.8mb, interview length: 19' 25" sound quality: ****
Interview by Dave Zimmer, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1983
Joni talks about the Canyon scene: the people, her house, what it was like; she talks about playing the coffee house circuit in New York, and meeting David Crosby; leaving New York for Los Angeles; Crosby producing her first album; meeting the foppishly dressed Graham Nash; and Crosby, Stills & Nash getting together; she then talks about not getting to Woodstock, and subsequently writing the song.
File format: mp3; file size: 26.8mb; Interview length: 27' 54"; sound quality: **
CSNY's Stephen Stills and Neil Young (1999)
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 October 1999
Together again to promote the new CSNY album Looking Forward, Messrs. Stills and Young enthuse about making the record, putting a band together to tour, the state of Crosby, and their relationship then and now. They also look back at their time together in Buffalo Springfield, spinning yarns and tall tales.
File format: mp3; file size: 37.9mb, interview length: 39' 29" sound quality: ****
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Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 9 August 1969
I THOUGHT I'D be hearing a good old north country accent when I picked up the phone, but Graham Nash, it seems, is now forbidden ...
Messrs Crosby Stills and Nash Enlarge the Company
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 9 August 1969
CROSBY, STILLS and Nash are no longer just the ex-Byrd, ex-Buffalo Springfield and former Hollie supergroup. They've added new partners to the rock band with ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 21 September 1969
COAST ROCK GROUP AT FILLMORE EAST. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Offer 2 Concerts in Debut ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash Fantastically Together
Report by June Harris, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
CROSBY, Stills, Nash and Young arrived in New York last week for performances at the Fillmore East. Needless to say, all four shows resulted in ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by June Harris, New Musical Express, 4 October 1969
THE START of this week's column should be called the continuing story of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I know that from the English point ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joy of Cooking, Cold Blood, Lamb: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 14 November 1969
In Style and Skill CSN&Y Riding High ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Wayne Robins, The Berkeley Barb, 21 November 1969
CROSBY STILLS Nash and Young are good enough to make you glad that Buffalo Springfield couldn't hack it. The dynamic one-two punch of that group, ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: In The Reaches of Laurel Canyon
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Fusion, 28 November 1969
RITCHIE YORKE visited Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "in the reaches of Laurel Canyon". At the beglnnlng of his interview he reported a feeling he ...
Keith Richard on Mick, Beatles, Led, Faith, Tull, Gees
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 6 December 1969
THE NEWS that the Rolling Stones have resumed personal appearances must have gladdened the hearts of pop fans everywhere. The Stones always were the most ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Nash — The Broadest Grin
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 3 January 1970
HEADLINES SCREAMED: "Hollies split" — and it turned out that it was Graham Nash who had actually left. That was all. But the cynics decided ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Are We in Tune? No
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 10 January 1970
Author's note, 2018: The review below was cut by the Guardian. What's here is uncut. Who plays Crosby Stills Nash (and Young) albums now or, ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 January 1970
SUPER CONCERT! ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 January 1970
"DON'T BUILD me up into a pop star. I'm no different from you or anybody else. It's just that, because I'm a musician, I can ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 January 1970
CROSBY, STILLS, Nash, Young and Old gave a lengthy and often enjoyable concert at London's Royal Albert Hall last week. The "Old" was the age ...
Genius, Hard Work and Steve Stills
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970
GENIUS, SAYS the old adage, is an infinite capacity for taking pains. If that's so, then Stephen Stills must be pretty close to it. ...
Report and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Circus, March 1970
THORNTON WILDER once wrote a book called The Bridge at San Luis Rey, where he followed back the lives of the victims of a bridge ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu (Atlantic); John Sebastian: John B. Sebastian (Reprise)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 16 March 1970
Compatible Pair of LPs By Sebastian and CSN&Y ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu (Atlantic 2401001)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 30 May 1970
A BEAUTIFULLY produced album. All the immaculate four-part harmonies, pretty guitar parts and relevant arranging are there. ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Vicki Wickham, Melody Maker, 13 June 1970
Flowerpower returns to the Fillmore ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Olympia Stadium, Detroit; Hair: Vest Pocket Theater, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 1970
2 Happenings Make Exciting Weekend ...
CSN&Y: Nash: We May Fight, But Music Wins...
Interview by Vicki Wickham, Melody Maker, 20 June 1970
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH and YOUNG finished their week-long, triumphant stint at the New York Fillmore and were joined for a huge celebration party at the ...
Alive, Well & Together: Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
LONDON is getting warmer, and the nights longer, and the sound of winter doesn’t even echo anymore. And though it’s not tranquility, it’s an atmosphere ...
Woodstock (Import Cotillion SD3-500)
Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970
BONUS TRACKS ON WOODSTOCK GIANT ...
Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970
Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...
Graham Nash: Song of a Simple Man
Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 9 November 1970
Update, 2020. I paid no attention to Graham Nash or to his band the Hollies, the close-harmony Manchester band formed in 1962 inspired by the ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 28 November 1970
A portrait of a rock giant... at work on his solo LP and at home in his English country house ...
Joni Mitchell, James Taylor et al: The Pop Aristocrats
Overview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
There's a new pop elite in America today, a closely-knit group of singers and musicians who have taken the music scene by storm. The members ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Four Way Street (Atlantic)
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 1 May 1971
I HAVE to admit at the start of this review that I'm generally not over keen on live recordings. Although occasionally they show that an ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 4 Way Street (Double set Atlantic De Luxe 2657 004)
Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 15 May 1971
It's a night with C,S,N&Y ...
Joni and the Laurel Canyon Mob
Comment by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
SO YOU wanna be a rock and roll star, right? Well, our advice is to head out Laurel Canyon way. Take a tip from one ...
This is David Geffen, by Gentlemen's Agreement Manager to the Superstars
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972
Will CSN&Y ever re-unite and find true happiness? ...
CSN&Y: Euphoric Acoustic Good Guys Hit The Dylan Trail
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974
"WELCOME AMERICAN Dairymen" read the hotel display-board and beneath it, in smaller letters, "Welcome Stephen Stills Group". Upstairs, overlooking Chicago in just another hotel room, ...
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
CHICAGO – "Welcome American Dairymen" reads the hotel lobby marquee and beneath it in smaller letters, "Welcome Stephen Stills Group." Upstairs overlooking the city in ...
A Stadium Fulla People An' Neil Young's Dog An' No Fist Fights
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 3 August 1974
TIME DOES indeed fade away. Four years and lots of solo albums later, 52,000 fans are sitting in the Milwaukee baseball stadium on a Sunday ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Love The One You're With!
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 10 August 1974
MILE HIGH STADIUM, as the name implies, is 1,760 yards high. That's a mile above sea level, but even so it sits at the foot ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: So Far
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
Gormlessly groping ...
CSN&Y: By The Time We Got Through Neasden...
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 21 September 1974
EVERYONE had their doubts. Throughout the daylong musical orgy of all 72,000 paying customers sat in nervous anticipation, enjoying the exceptionally fine music and the ...
Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 April 1975
IT STARTED with trademark objects, really. When The Byrds got their hit with 'Mr Tambourine Man', Jim McGuinn established himself as the one with those ...
CSNY: Graham Nash & David Crosby
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 1 November 1975
It’s hard to pin down the seventies. We're already half-way through and still there’s no significant characteristic about which we’ll be able to reminisce in ...
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Crosby and Nash: Rocky & Bullwinkle In Marin County
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, February 1976
Ring! Brring! Ring! ...
Mel Bush: The Man Who Hired The World
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, Rock On The Road (Futura), April 1976
A PROMOTER IS THE middleman between a musician and an audience. A promoter hires a venue, books an act, organises the publicity, is responsible for ...
Four Way Street Revisited... CSNY Revisited
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 22 May 1976
How Steve Stills learned to stop worrying about his own solo career and appreciate Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. A case of deja vu for ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 6 April 1979
LOS ANGELES – Ambitious, blunt but expressive, forceful, aggressive when the occasion requires it, capable of manic dedication and drive towards work and life goals...a ...
Graham Nash: The Winds Of Change
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 February 1980
INTEGRITY, MORE than any other word seems to define what Graham Nash is all about. ...
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1988
First studio album since Déjà Vu ...
David Crosby with Carl Gottlieb: Long Time Gone (Doubleday)
Book Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1988
DAVID CROSBY'S autobiography, Long Time Gone, provides a gripping, sometimes terrifying portrait of a rock stars personal and professional decline through drug addiction. As an ...
Crosby Stills Nash and Young: American Dream
Review by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 12 January 1989
American Dream fades out on the line "Why not keep on singing anyway?" – and that lackadaisical slogan seems to sum up the spirit in ...
Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, 22 February 1989
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED in the Halcyon Hotel, Holland Park, London, 22.2.89. Crosby casual in jumper, white shirt and slacks. Seriously overweight and often short of breath, ...
Who the hell does David Crosby think he is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1989
THE AGING MUSICIAN sits in his hotel room, an acoustic guitar propped upon his considerable paunch. He tosses back his long, greying hair, fingers his ...
Crosby Stills Nash and Young: Looking Forward in Y2K
Interview by Debbie Kruger, unpublished, 1999
GRAHAM NASH IS by nature an ebullient man, but maybe this time he went too far. Such was the anticipation of the long-awaited new Crosby ...
Report and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 October 1999
"CSNY2K'' IS coming. The title for the 41-city Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tour that starts in January may seem obvious, but it did give ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: "Deja Vu Again"
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 29 October 1999
THERE'S NO MISTAKING the portly middle-aged man with the walrus moustache beached on a sofa at the Dorchester hotel, plucking the chords of Neil Young's ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The MOJO Interview
Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, November 1999
David is chatting on his earphone, Steve is resting between rounds of golf in Monaco, Graham is boating in Hawaii, and Neil is relaxing down ...
CSNY: Rockin' in the free world
Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 4 February 2000
DURING THE INTERMISSION at Wednesday's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young performance, Susan Nash turned Portland's Rose Quarter into a birthday tribute to her husband. She ...
CSNY: Love The Ones You're With
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, GQ, April 2000
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - the ultimate rock supergroup - have been through the wars since first teaming up in 1969. Now the Woodstock ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2002
LONDON: DECEMBER, 1968. Moscow Road, Bayswater, just off the rowdy casbah din of Queensway with its hippie boutiques, bars, restaurants, buzzing crowds. There are three ...
Interview by Mike Mettler, Sound + Vision, April 2002
"I TEND TO GET carried away with technology," admits Graham Nash, one-third of the sweet harmonic equation that comprises the signature sound of Crosby, Stills ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 1 May 2002
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This tour journal is the last testament of the lost expedition of Mayfair. Last reported near the Grand Canyon, the members of the ...
Shakey: Neil Young's biography by Jimmy McDonough
Book Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, September 2002
MOST ROCK stars realise they need to plug the new album and stir up column inches when concert tickets go on sale, but eventually it ...
Still politically outspoken, CSNY brings its message to L.A.
Report and Interview by Fred Shuster, Los Angeles Daily News, 26 July 2006
AGE IS SUPPOSED to make you more accepting. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young apparently didn't get the memo. ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu Live
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, October 2008
Military madness! Live album, to accompany documentary film. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Cooper, Observer Music Monthly, 11 October 2008
Charles Manson, the Iraq war, a near fatal aneurysm: Neil Young has spent five decades fighting anything foolish enough to get in his way. On ...
Wild Tales: A Candid Conversation with Graham Nash
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 16 January 2009
"I knew that I would have to spend years with these guys" – Graham Nash ...
CSN&Y '74: A Long Long Time Ago
Film/DVD/TV Review by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, 12 February 2010
TO USE THE phrase deja vu in the opening sentence of a reflection on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young runs the serious risk of incarceration ...
Book Review by Rob Young, The Word, June 2011
AROUND 15 MAY 1970, Neil Young glanced at Time magazine's coverage of the killing of four students at Kent State, grabbed a guitar and within ...
CSNY 1974: An Interview with Graham Nash
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2014
DAVID CROSBY, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young release their CSNY 1974 boxed set from their historic 1974 tour on July 8th. The forty previously ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: CSNY 1974
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, September 2014
CSNY'S 1974 reunion has long been synonymous with the start of an age of the worst kind of rock'n'roll excess; 30 shows, masterminded by Bill ...
Graham Nash (2016) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 8 March 2016
This is a transcription of Adam's audio interview with Graham. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Mail On Sunday, 21 July 2018
Graham Nash reveals why he's dating a woman half his age after turning his back on his wife, drugs AND his former bandmates ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2021
ELLIOT MAZER, the recording engineer and record producer who worked with Kenny Burrell, Chubby Checker, Maynard Ferguson, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, ...
see also David Crosby
see also Crosby Stills and Nash
see also Graham Nash
see also Stephen Stills
see also Dallas Taylor
see also Neil Young
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