Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticDavid Crosby’s days on the road are over. The 80-year-old musician declared in a newly published interview that “I’m too old to do it anymore.
I’m too old to do it anymore. I don’t have the stamina; I don’t have the strength.”The revelation came as an almost casual aside in, of all things, a meeting with a high school class.
Crosby had agreed to be interviewed by a journalism class at Golden High School in Golden, Colorado, taught by Mark Brown, the former music critic for the Denver newspaper the Rocky Mountain News.When one of the students asked, “Are you going to tour anymore?,” Crosby said flat-out, “No.” He elaborated: “I’m not, because I’m 80.
It’s because I’m old. Being on a bus tour is a daunting task. It’s very hard. It takes it out of you.” Crosby also said that coming down with COVID had been tough on him. “It has been awful.
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