From
Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands
Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting
autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
Graham
Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and
roll—he’s written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as "Carrie
Anne," “On A Carousel,” "Simple Man," "Our House,"
“Marrakesh Express,” and "Teach Your Children." From the opening
salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has
rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his
story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the
British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni
Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective
and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and reaching
superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and his enduring career as
a solo musician and political activist.
Nash has valuable insights into a world and time many think they know
from the outside but few have experienced at its epicenter, and equally
wonderful anecdotes about the people around him: the Beatles, the Stones,
Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Dylan, and other rock luminaries. From London to Laurel
Canyon and beyond, Wild Tales is a revealing look back at an extraordinary
life—with all the highs and the lows; the love, the sex, and the jealousy; the
politics; the drugs; the insanity—and the sanity—of a magical era of music.
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