WATCHING DAVID CROSBY RELAPSE

Should I Have Written About? A Journalist's Choice

August, 1985. I met David Crosby for an interview in the restaurant of his Manhattan hotel. It may have been the nadir of a life of self-destruction. The interview was to promote a Crosby, Stills, and Nash performance at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island the night the story ran in Newsday Aug. 16, 1985.

But Crosby was also full of regret, and self-loathing for the situation in which he had put himself. He had left a New Jersey rehab before he was ready for discharge a few months earlier. He was on probation in Texas, where he faced a potential prison term for gun and drug possession.

Late in the interview, Crosby, who was sitting facing the street, suddenly excused himself and went out through the fire door to which we were adjacent. When he came back to lunch, he was unable to pretend nothing had happened.

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DAVID CROSBY'S TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC

by Wayne Robins

David Crosby rambled down to lunch displaying his latest acquisition: a walkie-talkie.

"This is my new weapon," Crosby …