Graham Nash is sharing new particulars about David Crosby‘s loss of life.
Following the announcement of his passing on Jan. 19, Crosby’s household famous that the two-time Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer died following a “lengthy sickness,” however didn’t elaborate on the precise trigger.
In a brand new interview, the Crosby, Stills & Nash singer says that his former bandmate had contracted COVID-19 for a second time previous to his loss of life.
“He was rehearsing for a present to do in Los Angeles with a full band,” Nash mentioned in the course of the Kyle Meredith With… podcast. “After three days of rehearsals, he felt a little bit sick. And he’d already had COVID, and he had COVID once more. And so he went dwelling and determined that he would take a nap, and he by no means awakened. However he died in his mattress, and that’s unbelievable.”
Nash aded that Crosby was fortunate to have lived so long as he did.
“I imply, the truth that he made it to 81 was astonishing,” he mentioned. “However [his death] was a shock. It was sort of like an earthquake, you realize? You get the preliminary shock after which you determine that you just survived. However these aftershocks stored developing, and so they’re diminishing in measurement as I am going alongside.”
Nash mentioned earlier this 12 months that he and Crosby — who have been famously estranged for years earlier than the pioneering folk-rocker’s passing — have been within the midst of creating peace simply earlier than Crosby died.
“The very fact is that we have been getting a little bit nearer on the finish. He had despatched me a voicemail saying that he wished to speak to apologize, and will we arrange a time to speak,” Nash instructed AARP journal in February. “I emailed him again and mentioned, ‘Okay, name me at 11 o’clock tomorrow your time, which is 2 o’clock on the East Coast.’ He by no means referred to as, after which he was gone.”
Nash instructed AARP that he suspected Crosby could have recognized the tip was close to. “Since his liver transplant and all his stents. He had seven stents. His physique was actually failing,” he mentioned of Crosby, who was open about his lengthy wrestle with drug dependancy. “However as soon as once more, I can solely attempt to keep in mind the nice occasions, as a result of we had a lot of them.”
Following Crosby’s loss of life, Nash shared an announcement about his “buddy” Crosby on social media.
“I do know folks are likely to concentrate on how risky our relationship has been at occasions, however what has all the time mattered to David and me greater than something was the pure pleasure of the music we created collectively, the sound we found with each other, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many lengthy years,” he wrote on Instagram.
