Crosby, Stills and Nash
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Year:
1997
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Inducted by:
James Taylor
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Category:
Performers
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David Crosby -
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Stephen Stills -
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Graham Nash
Introduction
The voice of a generation sang in impeccable three-part harmony.
Crosby, Stills and Nash took a thoughtful, song-centric approach to music, penning folk hits with messages of change, hope and forward motion.
James Taylor inducts Crosby, Stills & Nash
at the 1997 Induction Ceremony-
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James Taylor inducts Crosby, Stills & Nash00:04:12 -
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Crosby, Stills and Nash acceptance speeches00:06:55 -
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"49 Bye-Byes"00:05:26 -
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"Teach Your Children"00:03:12 -
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"Wooden Ships"00:09:12 -
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Crosby, Stills and Nash, Tom Petty & Bruce Palmer perform "For What It's Worth"00:05:30 -
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Crosby, Stills and Nash and James Taylor perform "Love the One You're With"00:04:28
Hall of Fame Essay
1997
When the unprepossessing album Crosby, Stills & Nash was released in 1969, it flew in the face of the predominant rock & roll wisdom of the day. Gentle folkish harmonies going up against megawattage Telecasters and Strats?
Forget it.
Wistful fairytales about wooden ships on the water competing with smash-your-head- against-the-wall full-blown rock & roll? Not gonna happen, man. No way. Get those wimps outta here!
Then a funny thing happened. CS&N happened, and happened in a big way. To get back in 1969 in the rock & roll world, that year began as the War of the Guitar Giants. Led by Jimi Hendrix’s blistering attack, decibels were crashing through the ceiling. Eric Clapton had just debuted the much-ballyhooed supergroup Blind Faith with a free concert for 100,000 in London’s Hyde Park.
they were the quintessential vocal group, so complex, sophisticated
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