(New York) Formerly united in a group that has remained legendary, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash announced on Wednesday that they had requested the withdrawal of their music from Spotify, like their ex-companion Neil Young who provoked the move last week.
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“We support Neil and agree with him: Joe Rogan’s podcast on Spotify is dangerous misinformation,” the three folk rock musicians including Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young wrote in a statement. , was established in California in 1968.
Their former sidekick, American-Canadian Neil Young, accused Spotify of misinformation about COVID-19 by hosting popular and controversial Joe Rogan’s podcast and asked on January 26 to remove his music from the streaming platform.
“While being committed to the expression of alternative opinions, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences”, believe Crosby, Still and Nash.
“Until there is real action to show that there must be a balance between the (well-being of) humanity and commerce, we do not want our music – or the music we have played together – or on this same platform”, they conclude.
Neil Young was followed in his opposition to Spotify by Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell and Quebec poet and singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault, leading to a movement to unsubscribe from Spotify on social networks.
And Britain’s Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle — who have signed an estimated $25 million deal with the platform — have expressed “concerns” to the streaming giant.
To try to extinguish the fire, Spotify announced measures on Sunday, such as the introduction, in all its podcasts evoking the COVID-19, of links which will guide its users to factual and scientifically based information, according to its CEO Daniel Ek.
Through their multiple separations and reunifications in twos, threes or fours, Crosby, Still, Nash and Young-aged 76 to 80-marked the history of folk rock from the late 1960s to the 2010s. notably performed at the legendary Woodstock festival in August 1969.