Genre
Folk rock and country rock. Widely regarded as the defining album of the supergroup format, Déjà Vu deploys the four members' contrasting songwriting voices — Stills's blues-rock drive, Nash's melodic intimacy, Crosby's psychedelic harmonic adventurousness, and Young's laconic intensity — across ten tracks that together constitute a musical portrait of countercultural America at the cusp of the 1970s.
Release
Released on March 11, 1970, by Atlantic Records, on a gatefold sleeve with faux-leather texture and embossed gold lettering. It was the second studio album of Crosby, Stills & Nash and their first as a quartet with Neil Young.
Production
Produced by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young. Engineer was Bill Halverson. Art direction and design were by Gary Burden. Recorded at Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California, United States, between July 1969 and January 1970.
Reception
The album topped the Billboard 200 and was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA, selling over eight million copies in the United States alone. It produced three US top-40 singles: "Woodstock" (No. 11), "Teach Your Children" (No. 16), and "Our House" (No. 30). Rolling Stone ranked it No. 148 on its 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and No. 220 on the 2020 edition.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were a supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 1969 comprising David Crosby (born August 14, 1941, Los Angeles – January 19, 2023), Stephen Stills (born January 3, 1945, Dallas), Graham Nash (born February 2, 1942, Blackpool, England), and Neil Young (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Canada). Each had established significant careers before their collaboration: Crosby with the Byrds, Stills and Young with Buffalo Springfield, and Nash with the Hollies. Their debut album as a trio — Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) — won the Grammy for Best New Artist; with Young added, Déjà Vu became one of the highest-selling albums of the era. The group's political engagement -most sharply expressed in Young's "Ohio," recorded four days after the Kent State massacre - made them spokespeople of their generation. They reunited on multiple occasions, most memorably for the 1974 stadium tour and the CSNY 2006 Freedom of Speech tour. David Crosby died in January 2023; the surviving members have not performed together since.
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