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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was a group of four songwriters from well-known bands. David Crosby had been fired from The Byrds in late 1967, Stephen Stills came from Buffalo Springfield and Graham Nash from the British band The Hollies. At a party in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles in 1968, the three discovered how good their voices sounded together. In 1969 Neil Young joined them, like Stills a former member of Buffalo Springfield. The group stands for Californian folk rock and for close harmony: singing in which the voices lie very close together.
Music and breakthrough
The debut Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) produced Suite: Judy Blue Eyes and Marrakesh Express. With Young, the group played the Woodstock festival in August 1969, according to Stills only their second time in front of an audience. Déjà Vu (March 1970) reached number 1 in America and became their best-selling album. It includes Our House, which Nash wrote in Joni Mitchell's house in Laurel Canyon, where the two lived together. Mitchell's Woodstock is on it too, in a hard-driving rock version. After the shootings at Kent State University in May 1970, in which the National Guard killed four students, Young wrote Ohio.
Influence
The 1970 tour, captured on the live album 4 Way Street (1971), was overshadowed by quarrels, and the group broke up soon afterwards. Crosby, Stills & Nash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; Young is inducted separately, as a solo artist and with Buffalo Springfield. Crosby died in 2023. With Ohio and Woodstock, the group gave a voice to the protest and counterculture of around 1970.
Listening
Our House · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
- 1970Déjà vu
- 1988American Dream
- 1999Looking Forward
- 2008CSNY / Déjà Vu (soundtrack)
In School of Rock
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- Mixtape 2: Youth Cultures 1950-1980NL Reader
- Mixtape 4: When Rock Was Still PopNL Reader
- Magazine: De jukebox gaat de film inNL Magazine
Mentioned in other articles
- Folk rock Genre
It belonged to the hippies of the late 1960s; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young brought the folk rock of California, with three and four voices in close harmony.