Stephen Stills, Rare Interview, 1970: “I Like Things That Have Roots”
On the frontline with the CSN star in this revealing four-part profile. Watch it now.
BY THE END of the 1960s, Stephen Stills had written one of the decade's most successful protest songs, played a central role in folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield and joined David Crosby and Graham Nash for an album that would define the laid-back singer-songwriter sound of the next decade. In this profile, led by broadcaster and author Charlie Gillett and filmed in 1970 for the Sounding Out programme, he looks back on his musical roots in the South, his life in New York's Greenwich Village folk scene, how he’s lived everything he’s written and the real story behind the Sunset Strip riots of 1966:
MOJO Staff