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David Crosby's life was defined by crushing lows — from personal and professional break-ups to drug addiction and jail time. But it is the soaring musical highs that he will be remembered for, writes Mark Bannerman.

David Crosby was a crucial voice of both the hippie idealism and the world-weary realism of the classic rock era. As a founding member of the Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he helped invent folk rock and country rock in the 1960s and was instrumental to the…

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David Crosby knew his days were numbered at least several years before his death was reported Thursday.

David Crosby has died at 81

LOS ANGELES — David Crosby, who helped found two supergroups that broadened and deepened the reach of rock music, and who, with his outspoken political pronouncements and famously outsized appetites came to symbolize the Woodstock generation’s exuberance and excesses, has died, according to a source close to the musician.

The singer, songwriter and guitarist also co-founded ’60s folk-rockers The Byrds.

Singer-songwriter David Crosby — who played Woodstock and was a founding member of 1960s folk-rock bands the Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash — is being remembered as a "completely unique" figure in the music business.