Neil Young pays tribute to David Crosby: 'Love you man' - CNN

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Legendary rocker Neil Young has paid tribute to erstwhile Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate David Crosby.

“David is gone, but his euphony lives on. The psyche of CSNY, David’s dependable and vigor were astatine the bosom of our band,” the statement, posted to Young’s website, read.

Crosby’s household announced Thursday that helium died astatine property 81.

“His large songs stood for what we believed successful and it was ever amusive and breathtaking erstwhile we got to play together,” Young’s tribute continued. “We had truthful galore large times, particularly successful the aboriginal years. Crosby was a precise supportive person successful my aboriginal life, arsenic we spot disconnected large pieces of our acquisition together. David was the catalyst of galore things.”

Young concluded, “thanks David for your tone and songs, Love you man. I retrieve the champion times!”

Young and Crosby’s paths crossed successful 1970 erstwhile Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash. The supergroup past became known arsenic Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and went connected to merchandise “Déjà Vu,” which contained the deed opus “Woodstock.”

The stone pioneers weren’t ever connected the aforesaid page, contempt the galore stages they shared.

“When you meet, erstwhile you commencement a band, you’re successful emotion with each other,” Crosby told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour successful 2019. “Forty years later, erstwhile you’ve done it for forty years and it’s devolved to conscionable crook connected the fume instrumentality and play your hits, it’s not musically exciting, it’s not amusive and we weren’t friends.”

Amanpour posed the question of Crosby perchance repairing his relationship with his erstwhile CSNY bandmates, to which Crosby replied: “That I would similar to do.”

Stephen Stills and Graham Nash besides paid tribute to Crosby.

“It is lone the representation of specified a unsocial and afloat beingness truthful good lived that indispensable prolong america done this play of profound grief,” Stills shared successful a statement.

Stills added that “David lived a beingness of heavy and enduring gratitude and was an extraordinary, richly sentient being,” continuing to accidental that “his euphony volition unrecorded connected done america all.”

Nash reflected connected their at-times “volatile” narration successful a tribute posted to Facebook, adding that “what has ever mattered to David and maine much than thing was the axenic joyousness of the euphony we created together.”