Trivia

Raised actress Drew Barrymore after her release from rehab.

Had a liver transplant.

Briefly replaced Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield. In fact, he appears with the band on both The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and at the Monterey Pop (1968) festival. This also help set in motion the formation of Crosby Stills & Nash and (later) Young in 1968.

In 1986 he turned himself in to the FBI and served eleven months in Texas jails, including four months in solitary confinement.

Arrested on marijuana and gun possession charges at a Times Square hotel, after a hotel worker found a bag that had been left behind. The bag contained marijuana, a .45-calibre handgun and two knives. (March 2004)

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 (as a member of Crosby Stills & Nash).

Through his mother, he is a descendant of the Van Cortlandt family and through his father of the Van Rensselaer family and from both of William Floyd, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

One of his favorite signature guitar tunings is: E-B-D-G-A-D.

Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Byrds) in 1991.

Crosby Stills & Nash were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for 6666 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

He has a son, Django, with Jan Dance, born in July 1995 as well as two other children from previous relationships.

Release of the book, "Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell It" by David Crosby and Carl Gottieb. (2006)

Was good friends with Larry Hagman, who also had a liver transplant.

Released the album "Looking Forward" with Crosby Stills Nash & Young. The group toured North America in support of the album. (1999)

Upon Crosby's death, he was cremated, and his ashes given to his surviving relatives.