User:PJtP/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1974 Reunion (draft)

In 1974 after four years of individual activity and occasional partnerships, most prominently the tour and album by David Crosby and Graham Nash, the four principals of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited for a summer concert tour. Promoted and organized by Bill Graham, it encompassed 30 shows in the United States and Canada over two months from July through September, culminating in a 31st and final show at Wembley Stadium in London. It was the first outdoor stadium tour since The Beatles had done so in 1966, and the logistics and profit of the tour had great impact on the mounting of rock concert tours in the future.

Two attempts at creating the second CSNY studio album, a follow-up to their iconic and best-selling Déjà Vu, flanked the tour. One took place in the summer of 1973 at a ranch belonging to Neil Young in Hawaii, and the other in the fall of 1974 following the tour. Both attempts disintegrated, a new album failing to materialize. In its place, during the tour in August Atlantic Records issued a compilation from the group's two studio albums and one single, So Far. Recordings from the sessions would appear on various albums by Stephen Stills, Neil Young, the duo of Crosby & Nash, and the 1991 box set.

As a result of the tour, except for a 1976 tour and album with Stills which also almost resulted in a CSNY reunion on record, Young would extricate himself from the group and pursue his own career. The trio would reform for a 1977 album and on a more-or-less permanent basis, and Young would not record with the group again until the 1988 album American Dream. Other than a dozen appearances at charity benefit events, including a two-song set at Live Aid and four times at his own Bridge concerts, Young would not perform in concert with CSN again until the 2000 tour in support of the Looking Forward album.

The group is in the process of completing a document of the tour to be released on compact disc and DVD to coincide with its 40th anniversary in 2014.