good evening, everyone, i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. we have stunning news tonight, alec baldwin facing criminal charges and a deadly shooting on the set of the movie rust. prosecutors planning to charge to store with involuntary manslaughter and the death of cinematographer halyna hutchins after she was struck in the chest by a live round of ammunition fired from a prop gun held by baldwin back in 2021. we have an in-depth hour on those charges against alec baldwin and the armorer on that set later in the show. there s also sad news tonight on the death of a folk rock icon. david crosby has died at the age of 81. his family says after a long illness, he has succumbed. david crosby is one of the founding members of the birds, and crosby, stills, nash and young. his music, for so many, was really the soundtrack of the 60s and decades to follow, and in particular. who could forget songs like well, like this i want to bring in cnn bill weir who inter
birds, eight miles high, turn, turn, turn, so you want to be a rock and roll star, but then they could not get along, they break up. they formed a supergroup for the first time they harmonize with the mamas and pop us, in the house of graham nash, and steve and stills, and they look at each other and new.it would be crosby stills and nash like a law firm. and then neil young came by and said i want to join the band. they re like, what can you do? they said, have you heard me sing with graham nash and play guitar? they brought him on, but then by the end, they weren t talking to each other anymore. it was either insulting a spouse or crosby said he had such a huge ego, but that broke my heart because we look at woodstock, the film, their second set ever was at three in the morning on monday. 500,000 people half of them are probably asleep. but the beauty of the,
first supergroup, but crosby stills and nash was the first american supergroup. tell us about that. yeah, as bill mentioned, and by the way, they ll, that was a wonderful lesson in laurel canyon history there, terrific. you have the birds who are just massive, and they are defining in their defining that sound, the finding that southern california sound, and then you have the buffalo springfield, also very successful, and the members of those bands come together, that s where you get cosby, stills and nash and eventually young joining. what is remarkable is so often that happens, and it s not what you re hoping for. in a way, the combination of those voices and the weaving of those voices and music, just take about wooden ships. i think we lead with that today. if you hear that song and close your eyes, you get goose bumps and it s