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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Simon Hattenstone

‘There was an enormous amount of drugs being taken’: Graham Nash on groupies, feuds, divorce and ego

Graham Nash: ‘I’m trying to live the best life I can, and I want to do that until they close the coffin.’
Graham Nash: ‘I’m trying to live the best life I can, and I want to do that until they close the coffin.’ Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

“I feel good,” a ludicrously youthful Graham Nash tells me. “Eighty years old and still rocking.” And some. Nash has rocked his way twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – as a member of the pop group the Hollies and as part of the groundbreaking folk-rock super-group Crosby, Stills and Nash.

His recent activities include touring, publishing a book of his photography, recording a live version of his first two solo albums, and running his lucrative fine art printing studio, Nash Editions. And then there’s his 2019 marriage to artist Amy Grantham, 37 years his junior. “I’m singing excellently, the music is great, and I’m selling lots of merch. Everything is going really well.” But, as I discover later, it’s more complex than that.

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