David Browne is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead and Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970, as well as biographies of Sonic Youth and Jeff and Tim Buckley. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, The New Republic, and other outlets. He lives in Manhattan.
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"Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is for music lovers, but it should
also be required reading for students of group
dynamics."--Washington Post
"[An] ultimate deep dive into rock and roll's most musical and
turbulent supergroup."--Werd.com
"[Browne] appears to have talked to nearly every living soul with a
part to play in the band's long career. . . . An excellent portrait
of a troubled partnership ... celebrates those fine moments when
the band merged to make such epochal songs as 'Suite: Judy Blue
Eyes' and 'Ohio.'"--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[Written with a] sharp eye and even hand... [this] isn't the first
book on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and it won't be the last, but
it's certainly the best."--No Recess
"A vivacious journey into a collision of four oversized egos-three
of them producing a harmony as strange and inspired as any in rock
and roll, a fourth achieving work of such strange and stunning
genius that the world has yet to catch up. Beneath those harmonies
was much clangor and static, even more than we knew, and Browne
captures it all in this magnificent and definitive book."--David
Yaffe, author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
"An exhaustive biography of the frictional quartet ... As a
document of how art, commerce, decadence and monstrous egos
intertwine, Browne's book could be a set text."--Mojo
"Browne has written the book that CSNY fans have been waiting for a
long time (with a long time gone) ... A worthy, substantive, and
comprehensive look at the saga of the rock group with a name like a
law firm."--Houston Press
"Browne's book gives a definitive look at the 20th century American
rock supergroup."--Ears to the Ground Music
"David Browne's biography chronicles the story of arguably the most
talented, yet most dysfunctional, band in rock history. That such
beautiful, groundbreaking music could emerge from such chaos is a
testament to the alchemy of talent and
creativity."--ChristianScience Monitor, "Top Pick"
"Few rock and roll sagas are as genuinely epic as this one, in
which, over nearly five decades, four enormous talents/egos come
together, find musical perfection, and fall apart in seemingly
unlimited ways. With unparalleled skill and wry insight, David
Browne chases down the details of CSNY's unique collaboration,
uncovering larger truths about creativity and collaboration,
debauchery and recovery, and a generation's harmonizing
heart."--Ann Powers, author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and
White, Body and Soul in American Music
"Incisive and astute."--Times Literary Supplement
"Painstakingly detailed ... truly absorbing."--Forbes
"Riveting."--People Magazine
"The interwoven tale of four of the rock and roll era's most
beloved, influential, and controversial stars, David Browne's
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Younghas it all: the great songs, the
terrible feuds, the drugs, the love, the money, the damage done,
and the spark that never quite dies. A clear-eyed portrait not just
of four singer-songwriters but of the rise, triumph, and collapse
of their generation's idealistic youth. Smart, poetic, and probing,
the book is a revelation."--Peter Ames Carlin, author of Bruce and
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
"The long, tangled, thorny story of CSNY requires a writer of David
Browne's immense skill to unravel, and he delivers beautifully.
Sympathetic without being fawning, as astute a critic as he is a
conscientious reporter, Browne chronicles the lives and music of
these four iconic artists with unfailing intelligence, humor, and
grace. This is a riveting read from beginning to what may or may
not be the end of this fascinating band."--Anthony DeCurtis, author
of Lou Reed: A Life
"The meticulous detail in Browne's book provides the most
wide-ranging and in-depth treatment we have of CSNY, and Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest
Supergroup ably lives up to the promise of its subtitle."--No
Depression
"The most comprehensive biography of the group to date ... Browne
compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative
chronicle."--PublishersWeekly
"This is one of the great rock and roll stories. It's like a Greek
myth. .... Browne is very good on the tribulations of David Crosby
- his addiction, imprisonment, re-entry and subsequent elevation as
a battered talisman."--NewYork Times Book Review, "Summer Reading
2019"issue
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