Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

In what stands as the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne has compiled an enjoyable and fast-paced musical history, which Publishers Weekly hailed as 'an authoritative chronicle.'

This book by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne offers the first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Even within the larger-than-life world of rock and roll, it was difficult to imagine four more disparate men: David Crosby, the opinionated hippie guru; Stephen Stills, the perpetually driven musician; Graham Nash, the tactful pop craftsman; and Neil Young, the creatively restless loner. Yet, together, few groups were as in tune with their times as Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

Beginning with the original trio's landmark 1969 debut album, the group embodied much of their era: communal music-making, protest songs that challenged the establishment and Richard Nixon, and liberal attitudes towards partners and lifestyles. Their collective and individual songs—'Wooden Ships,' 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,' 'After the Gold Rush,' 'For What It's Worth' (with Stills and Young's Buffalo Springfield), 'Love the One You're With,' 'Long Time Gone,' 'Just a Song Before I Go,' 'Southern Cross'—became the soundtrack of a generation.

However, their story would rarely be as harmonious as their legendary and influential vocal blend. In the years that followed, these four volatile men would continually break up, reunite, and disband again—all against a backdrop of social and musical change, recurring disagreements and jealousies, and self-destructive tendencies that threatened to cripple them both as a group and as individuals.

In Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup, seasoned music journalist and Rolling Stone writer David Browne presents the ultimate deep dive into rock and roll's most musical and turbulent brotherhood, coinciding with its 50th anniversary. Featuring exclusive interviews with David Crosby and Graham Nash, alongside band members, colleagues, fellow superstars, former managers, employees, and lovers—and with access to unreleased music and documents—Browne takes readers backstage and onstage, into the musicians' homes, recording studios, and psyches. He chronicles the creative and psychological ties that have bound these men together, and at times, torn them apart. This is the sweeping story of rock's longest-running, most dysfunctional, yet pre-eminent musical family, delivered with the epic feel their story rightly deserves.