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How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About it
Putnam
November 2006
On Sale: November 7, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0399153810
EAN: 9780399153815
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
David Crosby, the outspoken founding member of CSNY and
The Byrds, turns his wry and unstinting eye to a
fascinating, prickly subject: himself.
Known to
millions as the trickster poster boy for folkrock utopia and
the inspiration for Dennis Hopper's wild-eyed antihero in
the film Easy Rider, David Crosby is every bit the
quintessential American icon of the counterculture today
that he was in the sixties and seventies. Legendary,
controversial, beloved, he is never far from the headlines,
as the upcoming (Summer 2006) 50-city reunion tour of
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young will demonstrate once
again.
Since Then is both a self-skewering
look at the twists and turns of an impossibly rich life, and
Crosby's confident declaration that it's far too soon for
him to don the robe and slippers of Generational Elder. As a
two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he
has an unparalleled legacy as a singer, songwriter, and
musician-and few would object if he were to rest on his
laurels. Yet despite Crosby's history of extravagant excess,
he's never forgotten his great good fortune, and has never
stopped using his enormous gifts in service of both his art
and social causes to which he is committed.
This
memoir shows the contradictory aspects to a personality
whose truth-to-power outspokenness, exuberance, and
creativity have made him a great and inspirational artist,
yet whose struggles with private demons have resulted in
arrests, chronic health issues, and ruined friendships. It
discusses frankly the people and events that have
drastically altered his definition of "family": raising
ten-year-old son Django, with lover/wife/partner, Jan;
reuniting with his adult son, musician James Raymond, while
Crosby waited in the hospital for a life-saving liver
transplant; becoming sperm donor to Melissa Etheridge and
Julie Cypher. Above all, it illuminates how, despite a
staggering series of personal setbacks-including hepatitis
C, liver failure, diabetes, heart attacks, and a crippling
motorcycle accident-the music, and the people he loves, keep
him young at heart.
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