Organized by Bob Geldof, Live Aid was a benefit for famine relief in Africa. Those who left to get to work Monday morning not only missed Crosby, Stills and Nash, but didn’t see Jimi Hendrix close out the festival.Ĭrosby, Stills and Nash played this at Live Aid in 1985.

They played 16 songs in their set, the first nine acoustic and the last seven electric. the third night (The Who set a precedent by going on at 5 a.m. The event ran long, so they didn’t go on stage until 3 a.m. This opened Crosby, Stills and Nash’s set at Woodstock in 1969. It established the harmony style that would be the group’s trademark for years to come This wasn’t their first single, or even their biggest, but certainly one of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s most well-known songs. “Suite” is a reference to a part of a classical composition, but it can also be interpreted as “Sweet.” Many FM radio stations played the album cut. The single is three minutes shorter then the album version. I was left with all these pieces of song and I said, ‘Let’s sing them together and call it a suite,’ because they were all about the same thing and they led up to the same point.” I had a hell of a time getting the music to fit. It poured out of me over many months and filled several notebooks. Stephen Stills: “It started out as a long narrative poem about my relationship with Judy Collins. Graham Nash: “When Stephen Stills first played me this song, I wondered what planet he was from,” The song peaked at #21 in the Billboard 100 and #11 in Canada in 1969. Stills put that part in simply because the song had gone on forever and he didn’t want it to just lay there at the end. Here’s the translation: “How nice it will (or would) be to take you to Cuba The queen of the Caribbean Sea I only want to visit you there And how sad that I can’t, damn!”

It was sung in Spanish because Stephen Stills didn’t want it easily understood since it had little to do with the theme of the song. The last verse is in Spanish and is about Cuba. It has four distinct sections that are woven together with an acoustic and those harmonies holding it all together.

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