“You can’t be in love with Joni Mitchell and then lose it,” he said. “Once I heard that, I knew what I had to do.” He quit the Hollies, left his native England, and moved to California. “Forty-five seconds in, we had to stop.” The vocal blend stunned them. They sang Nash a new tune, “You Don’t Have to Cry,” and after listening to it twice he added his voice to theirs. “But when I pulled into the parking lot I heard voices.” Crosby had recently been fired from the Byrds, and Stills’s band, Buffalo Springfield, had broken up the two men were working on material as a duo. “I wanted to spend some time with Joan”-Joni, with whom he was in love. “I planned very little of it.” For example, he recalled the day in 1968 when he met Stephen Stills and David Crosby, in Joni Mitchell’s Laurel Canyon house, the place with “two cats in the yard” that inspired Nash’s C.S.N.Y. “I’ve always walked into my life,” Nash explained recently, over a late breakfast at Veselka, the East Village Ukrainian joint. They live together in a two-bedroom apartment on Second Avenue overlooking St. To his children’s dismay, Nash, who is eighty-one, left their mother for a woman half his age, a New York-based artist named Amy Grantham, whom he met nine years ago and married in 2019. I used to think that I would never love again I used to think I’d be all on my own I really thought that it was coming to an end And just the thought of it chilled me to the bone But not now.
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