(Credits: Far Out / Eddi Laumanns)
Mon 20 April 2026 19:30, UK
At one point in the 2019 documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name, the film’s director, Cameron Crowe, a former music journalist himself, plays a cassette for his subject, David Crosby, of an interview the two had conducted way back in 1974.
On that tape, a younger Crosby had recounted advice his father had given him, saying that all the fame, money, and women wouldn’t matter; it was all about how many friends you had at the end.
Hearing the recording back 40 years later, the older Crosby shakes his head, telling Crowe, “I think I made that up. The reason I think I made it up is my dad didn’t have any friends”.
David Crosby died in 2023 at 81, and as the obituaries rolled in for one of the great voices of his generation, just about all of them included at least some mention of his less glamorous legacy: his well-documented drug problems and series of arrests, and most especially his feuds and fallouts with many of his closest collaborators from The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, most of which were never properly reconciled.
The 2019 documentary helped frame Crosby in a more vulnerable and forgivable light, but at a certain stage in his life, he simply wasn’t equipped with the social tools or physical energy to rebuild the various bridges he’d spent a lifetime gradually burning down.
Here’s a closer look at five occasions in which he went on the offensive against his own rock colleagues.
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