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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.

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