Since Then
David Crosby, the outspoken founding member of CSNY and The Byrds, turns his wry and unstinting eye to a fascinating, prickly subject: himself.
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About the Author:
David Crosby, the legendary singer/songwriter/bandleader of The Byrds, and the "first initial" of CSNY, is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Carl Gottlieb wrote the screenplay for Jaws and co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Long Time Gone with David Crosby.
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Carl Gottlieb wrote the screenplay for Jaws and co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Long Time Gone with David Crosby.
It's been 18 years since Crosby and Gottlieb's first tome on the former's lurid rock-star life, Long Time Gone (1988), and the Croz hasn't stopped making news. He survived an earthquake and near-death experiences involving a motorcycle, hepatic failure, and arterial disease. He has done exemplary service as a major, major substance abuser who cleaned up; returned to recording and performing with Nash, Stills, and sometimes even Young; been arrested in New York City for possessing a gun and some weed; endured the recovered drug-abuser community's tut-tutting over his "fall" after 16 years' sobriety; and become a celebrity political activist. Less known but well reported here, Crosby lost all his money (his manager-accountant had an investing jones that he slaked with his clients' cash) just as the earthquake hit and a liver transplant loomed. He met a son given up for adoption as an infant in 1961--and formed a new band with him--and then a daughter from another relationship. He and his fellow ex-abuser wife, Jan, finally succeeded in having a child, now 11. His estranged and hermetic older brother died a suicide. He joined a fight (still not over) against a land deal that would put a casino in his backyard. All that, and personal assessments of the popular music biz (interesting) and the political situation (standard so-called lefty ranting, not well informed), with the whole shebang presented in movielike achronology and bolstered by plenty of Crosby acquaintances' interpolated testimonies, makes for a packed but absorbing book. Ray Olson
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- PublisherPenguin Group USA
- ISBN 10 0143059157
- ISBN 13 9780143059158
- BindingAudio CD
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