David Crosby
24 articles
Audio interviews
The Byrds' David Crosby (1967)
Interview by Ted Alvy, Rock's Backpages audio, 30 August 1967
The Cros talks about the new vibe of co-operation between musicians, Monterey, the disintegration of Haight-Ashbury, seeing Cream play the Fillmore the night before, and all kinds of other fine stuff
File format: mp3; file size: 36.4mb, interview length: 39' 47" 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: **
Interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages audio, 1989
The Cros talks about his biography, Long Time Gone (co-written with Carl Gottlieb), his years of addiction and rehab, friends Mama Cass and Graham Nash, and looks back at Woodstock.
File format: mp3; file size: 39.3mb, interview length: 42' 53" sound quality: ****
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Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967
BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...
Dave Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
Review by Jonathon Green, Oz, April 1971
THE CURRENTLY fashionable craze for the muzak freaks down at J. Walter Thompson (Know the West Coast — all you need's a cursory glance at ...
David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic stereo deluxe 2401005; £2.40)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 3 April 1971
DAVID CROSBY SOLO: WITH MANY FRIENDS! ...
Reunion Of Old Byrds: A Time For Peace
Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1973
LOS ANGELES — The five original Byrds are together again and not for the last time. They've made their first album together since Turn! Turn! ...
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 ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 16 January 1987
THE FIRST thing you notice is the twinkle in his eyes. That is the clearest signal that David Crosby is, indeed, back among the living. ...
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 ...
David Crosby (1989) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989
This is a transcript of John's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
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, ...
David Crosby: A Hippy out of Hell
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 3 March 1989
David Crosby is back with an album and autobiography. He talks to Adam Sweeting ...
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 ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, November 2001
THE FORMER BYRD RECENTLY TOURED EUROPE WITH CROSBY, PEVAR, RAYMOND – RAYMOND BEING HIS SON JAMES, WITH WHOM HE WAS REUNITED IN 1995 – TO ...
David Crosby: A Long Strange Trip
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, November 2003
Over the past 40 years David Crosby has done it all, from crafting transcendental, psychedelic harmonies for the Byrds and CSNY to living a life ...
Book Review by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 13 November 2005
DOES NARCISSISM have a sound? If it does, it is surely a dulcet, soft, melodic, tender sound. The music – for narcissism is nothing if ...
CPR: David Crosby/James Raymond
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages, 7 September 2007
UP ON THE fifth floor of Warner Brothers Records, David Crosby and James Raymond are embracing each other as if they haven't seen each other ...
David Crosby on If I Could Only Remember My Name
Interview by Sid Griffin, MOJO, January 2008
IF I COULD Only Remember My Name, David Crosby's 1971 debut solo album sits high on a hill, shining brightly, and quite alone in the ...
Obituary by Rob Hughes, The Guardian, 27 June 2011
Producer and manager behind the Byrds ...
David Crosby: "The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels"
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 26 February 2014
The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being "the voice of cosmic America" and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years. ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Guitar Presents Acoustic, Spring 2019
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the original unsubbed version, as submitted to the magazine. ...
David Crosby: Long Time Comin'
Interview by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, September 2020
From early 1960s gigs with Terry Callier and having a song covered by Miles Davis to latter-day collaborations with Snarky Puppy and Steely Dan's Donald ...
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, February 2021
MY GOOD FRIEND Johnny Rogan, who died unexpectedly in January aged 67, was among the most prolific and acclaimed music biographers of his generation. Much ...
see also Byrds, The
see also CPR
see also Crosby and Nash
see also Crosby Stills and Nash
see also Crosby Stills Nash & Young
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