away. he was lovingly surrounded by his wife and soul made jan and son djhengo. his humanity and soul will continue to inspire us. it will live on through his legendary music. peace, love and harmony to all who knew david. we will love him dearly. he is also the biological father to two of melissa etheridge s children. he gave me the gift of family. i will be forever grateful to him, jango and jan. david crosby was 81 years old. back to you. more reaction from crosby s former band mates posting their reactions to his death. we are devastated to learn of david crosby s passing and it s only the memory of such a unique and well lived life.
three interviews ever because he s so open and honest. he could be a prickly s.o.b., as many of his band mates will attest, but he could be the sweetest, just loving guy. when he s sitting in the house and he says, do you want to hear some music i ve written, his theme in life was second chances. he would joke, i can t believe hendricks and morrison didn t make it, i m still here. he did some time for his cocaine and heroin addiction. had a liver transplant. came back. wasn t content to do cover songs. he wrote five albums in five years later in life as his health was failing. a lot of complicated feelings out there. absolutely. but incredible person with so many layers and why so compelling. i mean, jim, we mentioned crosby, stills and nash performed their second gig which is why bill was speaking to him
mates especially once stevie nix and lindsay buckingham joined several years later. a new band was formed according to mcvie over mexican food and margaritas. in 1975 they would put out the band s self-titled album which sold millions. two years later came rumors which sold in the tens of millions and is one of the best selling albums of all time. it contains one of her best loved songs song bird. for you there will be no more crying mcvie says it took her only 30 minutes to write but as she explained in a bbc interview last year that was only the half of it. i wrote and finished it in half an hour. in the middle of the night. it was the middle of the night and i woke up and i happened to have a little piano in my room. but no tape recorder. no means to record it on.
career was destroyed. his band mates who he had helped to such enormous international success, dropped him in no seconds flat. they made him as far as can i see have this forced apology sort of mao s china style. a promise struggle session and now winston quite rightly says you know, i didn t do anything wrong. i read a book and i said that i had read a book. now, he stepped away from the band. is he an extremely honorable and decent person. a much more decent person i have to say than even i am. he is a very decent person truly. i thought frankly he should allow his band to go hell. when your friends have behaved so badly towards you he you should shame them. is he a very, very good and decent person. he believed he didn t want to embarrass his band mates through all the things they put him through, so he just stepped away quietly. he is an extraordinary person and great demonstration to sort of small act of courage in the
still hurting and waved him off. i was like, never mind, i m not going to eat it anyway. reporter: as matt left to run some errands, fran snoozed, figuring matt would wake her in time for the barbecue. i woke up at 5:47 and i called him. he didn t answer, and i texted him staring at my phone waiting for him to refly and fell back asleep. reporter: she called him twice more. she remembers the exact times. 7:31 and 9:01 and got his voice mail. she was starting to freak. even six hours in, you thought something bad had happened. right because he always answers or calls me right back. so i started calling the police stations and hospitals. reporter: over at the landrys barbecue, the salmon tasted great, but matt and fran were no-shows. still, no one thought twice about it. i knew she was running a fever, and you don t really feel like doing much, especially, you know, going over to parents house. reporter: meanwhile, matt s friends were getting as worried as francesca. th