**“A must for CSNY fans.” — _Kirkus Reviews_ , starred review****The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influentialearly years of “rock’s first supergroup” ( _Rolling Stone_ ) Crosby, Stills,Nash, and Young—when they were the most successful, influential, andpolitically potent band in America—in honor of the fiftieth anniversary ofWoodstock and the formation of the band itself.**1969 to 1974 were true golden years of rock n’ roll, bookmarking an era ofarguably unparalleled musical power and innovation. But even more than any oftheir eminent peers, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Youngchanneled and broadcast all the radical anger, romantic idealism, andgenerational angst of their time. Each of the members had already made theirmarks in huge bands (The Hollies, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds), buttogether, their harmonies were transcendent.The vast emotional range of their music, from delicate acoustic confessionalsto raucous counter-culture anthems, was mirrored in the turbulence of theirpersonal lives. Their trademark may have been vocal harmony, but few—if any—oftheir contemporaries could match the recklessness of their hedonistic andoften combative lifestyles, when the four tenacious, volatile, and prodigalsongwriters pursued chemical and sexual pleasure to life-threatening extremes.Including full color photographs, _CSNY_ chronicles these four iconicmusicians and the movement they came to represent, concentrating on theirprime as a collective unit and a cultural force: the years between 1969, whenWoodstock telegraphed their arrival to the world, and 1974, when their arch-enemy Richard Nixon was driven from office, and the band (to quote Graham Nashhimself) “lost it on the highway.”Even fifty years later, there are plenty of stories left to be told aboutCrosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—and music historian Peter Doggett is here tobring them to light in the meticulously researched _CSNY_ , a quintessentialand illuminative account of rock’s first supergroup in their golden hour fordie-hard fans, nostalgic flower-children, and music history aficionados alike.words : 135492
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