David Crosby Died After Contracting COVID-19, Graham Nash Says

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“Kyle Meredith With…” Nash said that Crosby was rehearsing for a show in Los Angeles when he tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time. “After three days of rehearsals, he felt a little sick.

And he’d already had COVID, and he had COVID again. And so he went home and decided that he would take a nap, and he never woke up.

But he died in his bed, and that is fantastic,” Nash said. Crosby died on Jan. 19 at the age of 81, with his representatives saying at the time that the founding member of The Byrds had passed after battling a “long illness.” Crosby had dealt with multiple serious health issues over the decades, including diabetes, heart problems and multiple liver transplants.“I think the truth is, we expected David to pass 20 years ago,” Nash said on the podcast. “I mean, the fact that he made it to 81 was astonishing… But it was a shock, kind of like an earthquake, you know?

You get the initial shock and then you figure out that you survived. But these aftershocks keep coming up.”As one of the leading figures of the Laurel Canyon folk movement of the ’60s and ’70s, Crosby was part of several of the most famous songs ever performed in the genre like The Byrds’ cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr.