USA: Musician and writer David Crosby releases a his new autobiography "SINCE THEN: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About it."

Renowned musician and writer David Crosby, formally of the folk rock groups 'The Byrds' and 'Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young' has released his second autobiography titled "SINCE THEN: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About it." Crosby is considered a musical legend and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. In 1988, he wrote his first autobiography which he co-authored with Carl Gottlieb who wrote the screenplay for the movie Jaws. It was Crosby's early years and his time in a Texas jail. It was titled, "Long Time Gone," and had become a New York Times bestseller. Teaming up again with Gottlieb, the two of them decided to write about the latest journey in Crosby's life, such as being a sperm donor, an organ recipient and fatherhood. In the book, Crosby talks about his near life experience when he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and needed an organ transplant. Many people questioned the surgery and felt he had preferential treatment, but Crosby feels otherwise. He tells about the wait, "when I was going through it I was just concerned about trying to stay alive, you could feel yourself dying everyday. And it was not good." He tells about these memories, "you just kept waiting and hoping you would get a match. You would hear a helicopter land on the roof and hope it was yours and it was going to save your life that day. And than finally one night it did." He also talks about how he became a sperm donor, thanks to his wife Jan, to Melissa Etheridge and her then-partner Julie Cypher. Crosby says his wife volunteered him because she felt it was the right thing to do. "It was an act of simple generosity. She didn't have anything to gain from it. It was just a nice thing to do." Her act of kindness he said "blew" him away. Crosby and Gottlieb hope the release of "SINCE THEN: How I Survived Everything and Lived o Tell About It, " will be just as successful as his first book back in 1988. But Crosby doesn't think he is any wiser instead he says, " I don't feel really wise enough to teach people anything. The stuff that I learned is to value life to really treasure it and if you love somebody tell them now." Crosby recently ended a United States tour with fellow bandmates of CSNY. These days e lives in the Santa Ynez Valley of California with his wife Jan and son Django. He is also the father to three other adult children, son James Raymond, daughters Erika Keller and Donovan Crosby from previous relationships. The book was released back in early November and is selling for $26.95 a piece.

ITN Source | November 30, 2006

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