Source: Good News Network
50 years ago today, musicians David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash played together for the very first time. In an impromptu gathering at Joni Mitchell’s house in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, Stills, a member of the Buffalo Springfield, performed his new song with Crosby (from The Byrds) joining in.
Nash, who was in the Hollies at the time, improvised a third part harmony, which was so good that the three realized they had a special chemistry. The trio’s first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969 and became a major hit in the US with two hits, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes and Marrakesh Express. Three months later, having never performed together live, they played Woodstock. WATCH their appearance below… (1968)Neil Young joined the band the following year, and the foursome put out their first album with Young in 1970 called, Déjà Vu. They also released the powerful anti-war anthem Ohio — about the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University killed by the police — a single they recorded and released within a week of the incident.
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, published its first edition (1767)
- The Battle of Gettysburg ended after three days in a major victory for the North, marking a turning point in the Civil War when the Confederates retreated southward (1863)
- Joshua Slocum, from Nova Scotia, became the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth (1898)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lit the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield (1938)
- Algeria became independent after 132 years of French…
The post Good News in History, July 3 appeared first on FeedBox.