Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest

I remember as if it were yesterday.

It was either late 1969 or early 1970 and one of my best friends: Alden, had come over to my house to spend the night.

He brought with him a couple of albums (for you younger generation out there-albums are like large CDs made of black vinyl that break).

One of the albums was Crosby, Stills and Nash. Young contributed but stayed behind-the-scenes. He would add his initial to the group's second album: Deja Vu

He put it on my little, single speaker turntable, placed the needle on the record and the music began to play.

I was hooked immediately.

I had heard of the group.  They played at the Woodstock Music Festival a few months earlier.

What we were listening to was their premiere album.

All four musicians had come from successful bands: Crosby from The Byrds, Graham Nash from The Hollies and Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield as did Neil Young.

Miraculously the four met, immediately bonded and started creating music.

CSN & Y epitomized that Folk Rock movement of the early seventies.  Their seamless blend of vocal harmonies unified the rebellious youth of the time and their politically laced lyrics resounded with the Hippie/Me Generation.

In the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest: Music To Change The World book, written by Robert McParland and published by McFarland Books, readers are invited to journey back in time to the band’s genesis and travel the decades with them to the present.

Along the way readers will learn about their political agenda (much of which I disagree with, but I still love their music), their highs and lows, tensions between the band’s members and their popularity through the decades.

Learn about heir bouts with drugs and alcohol, their turbulent and often confrontational drive to create, their friendship and their eventually breakup sparked by Nash and Crosby’s falling out.

For a first-hand look at the long and successful years by one of the most influential Rock bands in the world Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest delivers.