"We will miss him dearly," Crosby's wife said in a statement. "At this time, we respectfully and kindly ask for privacy as we grieve and try to deal with our profound loss."
David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81.