David Crosby Biography

David Crosby is one of the best-known musicians of the Woodstock generation. He was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a member of The Byrds (1991) and once as a member of the rock supergroup Crosby Stills & Nash (1997). With The Byrds he recorded 1960s folk-rock hits like “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Turn Turn Turn.” With CSN (sometimes known as CSNY when joined by Neil Young) he played at Woodstock and wrote and performed on landmark albums like Deja Vu (1970). In the 1980s his personal struggles with drug addiction were much in the news, and in 1985 he served time in jail for drug offenses. He had a liver transplant in 1994, necessitated in part by his past drug abuse. He began recording with a new group, CPR, in 1998; one partner in the group, James Raymond, was a son Crosby had given up for adoption many years before. In January of 2000 rock star Melissa Etheridge announced that Crosby was the biological father of two children she and her partner Julie Cypher had conceived by artificial insemination.