# The one singer David Crosby always wanted to reconnect with: “It’s a shame”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-one-singer-david-crosby-always-wanted-to-reconnect-with-its-a-shame/
- Published: 2026-08-03T13:00:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T12:46:15+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/singer-david-crosby-always-wanted-to-reconnect-with/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- David Crosby regretted never repairing his rift with Roger McGuinn.
- Their 1960s Byrds-era conflict was never resolved before Crosby's 2023 death.
- Crosby cited McGuinn's "Eight Miles High" solo as proof they could have worked well together.

## Summary

David Crosby spent much of his career burning bridges with fellow musicians through his blunt, often self-destructive behaviour, and by the end of his life he expressed regret over several relationships he never managed to repair. Chief among these was his estrangement from former Byrds bandmate Roger McGuinn, a rift stemming from conflicts in the 1960s that neither man ever fully resolved, despite Crosby's later efforts to reconcile with various other collaborators.

Crosby credited his own jazz influences with helping shape McGuinn's guitar solo on the Byrds' "Eight Miles High", and said he wished the pair could have made music together again, calling it "a shame he doesn't want to work with me again". While Crosby went on to collaborate with numerous other artists, including Phil Collins in the 1980s and various figures from folk and jazz, McGuinn kept his distance, and the two never reunited musically before Crosby's death in January 2023.

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