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In 1977 Crosby, Stills & Nash released CSN.

It was propelled by solid songs from all three principals, trademark vocals, contemporary production, and as usual a hit single from Nash in “ Just a Song Before I Go ”.

The album soared up the pop albums chart, just missing being their fourth number one in a row, held off the top slot by one of the best-selling LPs of all time, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

The meticulously crafted CSN fit right in with the ruling commercial sounds of the day, just as Young was imagining his reaction to punk with the Rust tour and albums, illustrating how far the two camps had diverged.

Regrouping as a regular touring unit, after a five-year lay-off between releases which saw a solo album apiece by Stills and Nash, they hit the top ten one more time with Daylight Again in 1982.

Complications were brewing due to Crosby's increasing dependence on freebase cocaine, making his participation problematic.

The Nash record of 1980, Earth & Sky, was to be another Crosby-Nash project, but Crosby ’ s participation discontinued due to excessive drug use.

Daylight Again was initially undertaken by Stills and Nash alone owing to Crosby ’ s subsequent decline in productivity ; however, Atlantic Record executives refused to release the latter LP until Crosby was reinstated.

Crosby joined his partners for the tracks “ Delta ” and " Might as Well Have a Good Time ", and the album contained two hits, Nash ’ s “ Wasted on the Way ” and Stills ’ “ Southern Cross ,” the latter accompanied by a popular video on the nascent MTV network.

But the group now relied on outside composers and singers to augment their material and had thus all but ceased to be the force they had been ten years past.

The trio continued to tour, but the bottom fell out for Crosby, arrested and jailed on drug and weapons charges in Texas in May 1982.

Having recorded a potential title song for the film WarGames that was never used, the band released it as a single and hastily assembled concert recordings around two studio tracks for the album Allies, their lowest-charting record to date.

Crosby was sentenced to two terms, but the conviction was overturned ; arrested several more times, he finally turned himself in to the authorities in December 1985.

He would spend eight months in prison, and Nash and Stills released another round of solo albums in the mid-1980s.