She knew I was unhappy with The Hollies, she knew that Springfield had broken up, she knew that Crosby & Stills were trying to get some duo action together, and I think Cass really knew what we would sound like.” “If it wasn’t for Cass Elliot, none of this would have been happening,” Nash says. “I have a feeling she knew what the three of us would sound like singing together before we did. While The Hollies dominated the charts with hits like “Long, Cool Woman in a Black Dress” and “The Air I Breath,” Nash found perfect harmony with Crosby, Stills & Nash, who formed at the urging of Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas. “The truth was, I wasn’t doing so bad myself.” 8, 1968, so they had the audacity, the gall, to have two No. “I just hope race relations will get better and America will introduce themselves to each other and not be so polarized.” We all know that’s wishful thinking,” Stills says.
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“The leadership of the free world is not supposed to be a reality show, it’s supposed to be a considerate debate on the issues … So I hope the clown car will empty out soon, and we can actually get down to basics.”Ĭan the holiday season end the partisanship? It’s the strangest political season I’ve ever seen in my life, and at 70, that’s saying something,” he says. “I’m just holding my breath for this next election. Stills says he’s deeply concerned about the 2016 presidential race. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s just gotten worse and worse, when our wonderful Senate Majority Leader (Mitch McConnell) walked out and said, ‘All we have to do is make Obama a one-term president.'” “The murderous ’60s when they killed all of our leaders,” Stills says, alluding to the assassinations of John F. But he hasn’t been thrilled with the nation’s direction in the decades since, pointing to one turning point in particular.
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Stills says he’s been a political junkie ever since his childhood when he huddled around a TV in his hometown country store to watch Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. “I just wanna wish you a very, very Happy Christmas.” Thursday on the Ellipse just south of the White House, airing live on PBS and online, co-presented by the National Park Foundation and National Park Service.ĭavid Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash joined WTOP to preview the event and discuss their prolific careers, including the formation of “CSN” in 1968, the addition of occasional fourth member Neil Young in 1969, and the induction of all four artists into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other celebrity guests include Miss Piggy and Reese Witherspoon. The trio will perform at the 93rd annual event, along with Fall Out Boy, Aloe Blacc and the U.S. Coast Guard Band. WASHINGTON - If the holiday season promotes “peace on earth” and “good will toward men,” who better to light the National Christmas Tree than peaceful poets Crosby, Stills & Nash? Octo| Crosby, Stills & Nash preview the National Christmas Tree Lighting ( Jason Fraley)
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