collected his ashes and prepared for a family farewell. >> woodruff: finally tonight, famed musician graham nash just come out with a new memoir of his life in rock 'n roll, titled "wild tales." in the mid-1960s, nash had numerous number one pop hits with the british band the hollies. he later became part of the supergroup-- crosby, stills, nash and young. jeffrey brown talked with him recently while on a new solo tour at the birchmere in alexandria, virginia. here's an excerpt of their conversation, where nash talked about some of his famous musical and life partners. >> brown: let me say names at you and give me your impression. stephen stills. >> certainly one of the finest guitar players in the world. certainly --tor a certain -- i think he's a very underrated guitar player. you know, i read the top 50 guitar players in this "rolling stone" and he's somewhere around the bottom and that's just not right. he's an incredible guitar player >> brown: david crosby. >> crosby is one of the most unique musicians i know. when i was doing his box set-- and i did stephen's and i did mine, of course-- i

so you can. ♪ >>> graham nash the founding member of crosby still and nash is out with a new autobiographys 50 years, he's definitely not slowing down. >> reporter: from the hollies -- ♪ are you thinking ♪ >> reporter: to crosby still nash and young. ♪ teach your children well ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it's been quite a ride for graham nash. >> i got to the end of the manuscripts and i looked down at the pages and i said wow, i wish i was him. >> reporter: he grew up a working class kid in manchester england, where alan clark became obsessed with the everley brothers and decided to form their own bands. the hollies took the british charts by storm in the '60s then followed the beatles to america in the british invasion. ♪ marrakesh express ♪ >> reporter: but 1980 nash became frustrated with his group, he fell in love with joni mitchell and went to laurel canyon where he said cass elliott of the mamas and the papas who introduced her to david crosby who introduced him to stephen stills. >> it seems there was something in the water? >> i don't think it was in the water. >> reporter: nash was travelin

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