The late was one of rock’s great survivors. When sat down with the then-65-year-old former / /CSNY legend in 2007, he had come through heavy-duty drug addiction, motorbike accidents and a liver transplant. Gracious, funny, smart, Crosby had an opinion about everything.
threw at him topics and names from his eventful life, then sat back and listened. His passionate and candid responses paint an illuminating picture of the man who was once introduced on stage by a bandmate as ‘The Sperminator’. [Laughs loudly] The 80s is a great place to start.
As a period: a real wasteland. You’re talking about dance music – real bad dance music. The 80s was not a good time for me because I was completely out of my head on hard drugs.
So were a lot of people. The 70s and 80s were when all of that blossomed. And it really went downhill during the 80s.
I got into hard drugs: a lot of cocaine, a lot of heroin. A lot of people going down the tubes. A lot of people dying.
And disco. I mean, how bad can it get? You know, it’s an interesting thing. I never thought I would.
And if you had asked me when I was 25: “What are you going to feel when you turn 65?” I’d think I would be decrepit and not at all happy about it. But I was supposed to be dead 11 years ago, which changes how I feel about that entirely. I’m not dead.
And I’ve had three kids since then: my son Django, who I’m raising, and the two kids with Melissa [Etheridge] and Julie [Cypher], Beckett and Bailey. None of th.
